Thanks for the info. I don't have any specific knowledge about these studies but I still have zero trust in them. (Also I'm not knowledgeable enough in study design and methodology to critique these particular ones).

But here's the reason for my zero trust. I was fooled by studies like this for a long time, in many different nutritional areas. However, the studies all had one thing in common - they all pointed to the same direction. Meat and animal is bad, fiber, whole grains, fruit and veggies is good. That's the way the propaganda is going now.

And when I read The Big Fat Surprise (and many other books, but that was the first and most influential), I learned that most of the studies were trash. And studies that showed the opposite were actively suppressed.

And more importantly, when I actually started eating the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the studies recommended, I found my health massively, massively improved. And it didn't even take long.

So bottom line - no faith in these types of studies, I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. And that doesn't include chocolate. ;-)