Just as we sat lapping up some atrociously delicious fare from the ice cream store of Ghirardelli my father read out a news pop-up that claimed dark chocolate and chocolate makers included lead and cadmium in their very popular creations. Lead and cadmium levels could seriously impair human function the study claimed. At the same time, I was reading a book by Gabor Mate that says that there is nothing carcinogenic, but it’s all about how everybody reacts to the element that they are exposed to. While some people could develop cancer when exposed to certain chemicals, others could simply move on without even feeling it a wee bit. The reasons for reaction of course are plenty and could be accentuated through stress that affects hormones more than genetics and hence affects the human body. Mate says that non-smokers have lung cancer since the permutations and combinations for mutations are plenty.
But when industry makers add metals that are better left out of the human body it is deeply hurting, as if chocolate did not hurt enough already! It’s probably a motion to give up the food of the Gods, as how much research can one do or when one can do or then do the research and be assured of what one is putting into the body. The option of course is to banish those stresses away, in fact, listen up to them so that they can leave and then be open to all that the world throws at you, metal or not. The plastics that have entered our cells are tough enough to remove, and then we complain of plastic beauty. Nature has all the answers they say and as long we are in tune with nature we are good, but then lead and cadmium are natural too, and therein lies the irony.
But yes, I’d like lead and cadmium to be on the periodic table rather than my tummy if you please!
https://www.asyousow.org/environmental-health/toxic-enforcement/toxic-chocolate
Vedasri Siddamsetty 