Does Your Chocolate Contain Heavy Metals?

It’s that time of year again when many of us start indulging in the treats we avoid much of the year with a big holiday favorite being… chocolate. Unfortunately, it turns out that dark chocolate, often considered to be the “healthy chocolate”, often contains heavy metals such as lead and cadmium that can be harmful to our health and cause a wide variety of symptoms, many of which are mysterious and difficult to diagnose.

Don't cry. You Can Still Have Your Chocolate & Eat it Too!

That doesn’t mean we need to avoid dark chocolate all together, though. Read more about recent tests done on some of the most popular chocolate products to learn which ones you may want to avoid in this recent Consumer Reports article here. 

Avoid Toxins and/or Remove Them From Your Body

And… as many of you already know, a great way to lower your toxic load from heavy metals is to avoid exposure to heavy metals and detox with zeolite clinoptilolite.