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like the article says, the takeaway isn't to panic, but just to consider dark chocolate a food you don't overindulge in. obviously you want to avoid contaminant
by BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
like the article says, the takeaway isn't to panic, but just to consider dark chocolate a food you don't overindulge in. obviously you want to avoid contaminants, but some degree of exposure is part of life, and it's the dose that makes the poison.
- davzie 3y agoI know I'm spending too long on HN when I start panicking about every day normal things to consume or do incase it poisons me, causes cancer, gives me alzheimer's or something else that makes top page posts. The health-nut side of HN is what lets it down and makes it a depressing place to hang out in.
- Pigalowda 3y agoJust eat a balanced diet and exercise. Don’t smoke, drink, or do drugs (if you do then do them sparingly). Everything else won’t move the needle and should be mostly ignored - someone is selling you something or gaining a click. Luckily for the American health care industry people ignore that advice and do their very level best to oppose it at every turn.
- davzie 3y agoWell a big green tick for me on all those points. Thanks for being a voice of reason!
- Dylan16807 3y ago> Just eat a balanced diet and exercise. I've never seen a particularly good definition for "balanced diet", and many communities that are super healthy have diets that don't look balanced at all.
- BaculumMeumEst 3y agothe problem is these submissions are incentivized to scare the shit out of you, but not to be honest about “how worried you should be about it”. this heavily applies to MSM stories as well. once i understood that, i got more aggressive about hiding this kind of content, or taking it with a huge grain of salt.
- Blackthorn 3y agoThere is no safe level of lead exposure, though.
- jksflkjl3jk3 3y agoHow are you defining a "safe level"? Everyone in the world has been exposed to some amount of lead and most live out relatively long and healthy lives.
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoComments like these are always so annoying to be honest. It takes the responsibility off the food manufacturers to do really simple things like, let’s not put toxic chemicals in food, and instead writes the whole thing down with flimsy statements like “well you’re already poisoned to some degree, should be fine though.”
- smegger001 3y agoBut its not entirely wrong there is some natural background level of expected exposure for things like lead, arsenic, mercury, etc as they are naturally occurring part of our environment. wanting to know what the floor is when talking about exposure to these toxins helps you understand the scale of exposure.
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoIn what environment should we be expected to naturally encounter lead, arsenic, and mercury?
- jksflkjl3jk3 3y agoJust about anywhere in the world that's not a sterilized room.
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- Obscurity4340 3y agoIts kind of ironic that dark chocolate is more a rich person's thing on a practical level and that the shittier the chocolate (in the sense of real chocolate content which is heavily used as a proxy for quality), the safer it might be
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoNot the first time. White bread was originally a rich person's food compared to whole grain. It cost more to produce white flour. Now we promote whole grain and charge more for it.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoLol, I feel that way about anything "white" in terms of breads and such except like if its with italian food