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by sparker72678 966 days ago
For someone in the upper 1% of chocolate consumption, lead intake via chocolate is unlikely to be anywhere near the top of their list of health risk factors.
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It could easily be the largest risk factor from chocolate.

In Switzerland the average person is consuming 8.8kg/year (22lb), and the country is quite healthy by international standards. They have the lowest obesity rate in Europe and and half that of America which averages significantly lower levels of chocolate consumption.

Why? Eating very dark chocolate does not increase other morbidity factors.

I'm one of these ones. Sometimes eating two bars of 98% chocolate per day. Sometimes more.

The fats in it are not unhealthy, and the sugar amount is also very low.

Depends, you may consume cocoa but not chocolate. Heavy metals are still there.
What are you basing that on?