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Old news. Well, a few weeks old.
Trader Joeâs and Hershey being sued. More to come, Iâm sure.
Very sadly, this has made me change my dark chocolate fix. Who knew?
But not reported on Motley Fool boards. I wonder why? (I did search before the posting.)
I mentioned it in a Starbucks thread a while back, but youâre absolutely correct that it wasnât reported on its own thread.
Mast and Ghirardelliâs 86% have become my âgo toâ dark chocolate these days. The CR report really bummed me out, but it also made me change my dark chocolate habits.
Got to figure out how to get in these class action lawsuits so I can spend hours and hours documenting my dark chocolate consumption so I can collect a settlement check for $3.42. I suspect that the lawyers will get a tad more than that.
Hey, heaven forbid anything bad should happen to you. But save your labels and receipts. If worst comes to worst you can blame your ill health on bad chocolate and sue for at least $10MM.
Never cared for dark chocolate. Milk chocolate works great.
Even better, in factâŚat least from the perspective of dentists, endocrinologists, Novo Nordisk execs etc. looking to avoid the dole.
iirc, chocolate came up in the thread about the study that, contrary to the industry funded studies that âprovedâ you should drink alcohol every day, regular consumption of alcohol is not a good idea.
It was suggested in that thread that the pro-chocolate âstudiesâ the media has been pushing on the mob, for years, the ones funded by the Confectionerâs Association, might be bent too.
Probably only a matter of time until a study on coffee, not written by âJuan Valdezâ makes the news too.
Steve
Whilst itâs a good idea to be aware of potential biases in research, if your own bias is to question every industry funded study just because itâs industry funded, then thereâs a strong potential to miss the real reasons for questioning what you read. That the conclusions drawn might be wrong, for instanceâŚand theyâll be just as wrong if theyâd been NIH funded or by a no strings attached grant from a charitable organisation.
With the health halo thatâs been promoted for, say, dark chocolate or red wineâŚanything of an observational nature is likely to be skewed by other habits of the observed demographic. The confounding variables that Ben Goldacre mentioned in the TED talk I linked to. Bench research studying the isolated components at cellular level might give some interesting answers but avouds the most obvious questionâŚi.e. how much of the stuff does a person have to eat/drink to gain the benefits from the changes measured on individual cells?
Iâd wager that the amount might not fall into the energy budget of a reasonable weight management eating plan (the candy) or within the capacity of even a healthy liver to metabolise the stuff (the booze)