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 On ingredients look for cocoa, make sure its not processed with alkali (Dutch processing)
+Ancel Keys - the guy to blame for incorrect nutritional knowledge. He incorrectly thought Mediterranean diet means seafood and didn't credit oil, always wanted to break down while foods into constituent ingredients.
+He ran a very long study with thousands of mental patients. The result - lowering cholesterol was achieved - but led to no reduction of cardiovascular disease or death. Minnesota coronary survey.
+Results were so inconvenient it took 16 years for them to be published - in 1989.
+After the guy's death - documents were discovered, showed that there was 22% higher risk of death for every 30 mg/dl drop in serum cholesterol. Corn oil group had twice as many heart attacks over 5 year period. So lowering cholesterol led to worse outcomes
+Framingham Heart Study
+Multigenerational analysis of heart disease risk. Thousands. Showed that higher cholesterol - even in so called dangerous range - correlated to better scores on cognitive, reasoning, attention and concentration, verbal and executive abilities tests.
+Another study showed that higher cholesterol levels (both kinds) correlated to better memory performance.
+Maybe even helps against dimentia.

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