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The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studied to prove that cocoa is good
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<blockquote data-quote="emapples" data-source="post: 3045054" data-attributes="member: 11752"><p>Oddly enough Cacao does have some health benefits, the Aztecs and Mayans used it for centuries. The problem with cacao is that it’s not chocolate once you redid it to cocoa then fortify it with a **** load of empty carbs (i.e. refined sucrose) then you have much less healthy product. Originally was onto used to make a bitter drink (much like coffee). Oddly enough this isn’t worst example of shady food companies BS.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat</a></p><p></p><p>Sugar companies promoted studies that blamed our fatness on fat consumption , and this simply wasn’t true. Not all fats are the same and some of them are actually pretty good for you. Rememeber how terrible butter was for us ......margarine was the healthy choice, they soon found out that PHO’s were twice as deadly as butter. PHO’s are now outlawed and to be completely phased out by next year (although most have already phased them out). However there is not a good replacement for PHO’s in modern food production. And the primary replacement feed stock is entirely produced off shore with 90% being produced in East Asia. Guess what happens when supply from this area is disrupted by a hurricane ......well it’s not pretty I can tell you that much.</p><p></p><p>The moral of this story is you can’t trust big food, big pharma, or big government.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emapples, post: 3045054, member: 11752"] Oddly enough Cacao does have some health benefits, the Aztecs and Mayans used it for centuries. The problem with cacao is that it’s not chocolate once you redid it to cocoa then fortify it with a **** load of empty carbs (i.e. refined sucrose) then you have much less healthy product. Originally was onto used to make a bitter drink (much like coffee). Oddly enough this isn’t worst example of shady food companies BS. [URL]http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat[/URL] Sugar companies promoted studies that blamed our fatness on fat consumption , and this simply wasn’t true. Not all fats are the same and some of them are actually pretty good for you. Rememeber how terrible butter was for us ......margarine was the healthy choice, they soon found out that PHO’s were twice as deadly as butter. PHO’s are now outlawed and to be completely phased out by next year (although most have already phased them out). However there is not a good replacement for PHO’s in modern food production. And the primary replacement feed stock is entirely produced off shore with 90% being produced in East Asia. Guess what happens when supply from this area is disrupted by a hurricane ......well it’s not pretty I can tell you that much. The moral of this story is you can’t trust big food, big pharma, or big government. [/QUOTE]
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