Can you lose weight by eating dark chocolate? The world has been deceived by this man

Can dark chocolate lose weight?

Search for dark chocolate and you will find that many people associate dark chocolate with weight loss. But the truth is cruel. The idea of dark chocolate losing weight only began with a German journalist and documentary director named John Bohanon. The fact that dark chocolate can lose weight is just an experiment he used to test whether media reporters care about the rigour and authenticity of the scientific research process.

Unexpectedly, this joke would become too big and deceive countless people around the world.

This is not the first time that John Bohanon has deceived a magazine. He used an experiment created out of nothing and then used the false experimental results to write 255 papers, and 157 of them were published in the magazine.

John wanted to use this method to ridicule the magazine's behavior of helping people publish as long as they collect money.

So German television is trying to make a documentary about exposing the junk diet food industry. They want John to demonstrate how a random scientific study can make headlines around the world...

So they decided to play the big game together ~

First of all, they chose dark chocolate as the subject of the experiment. The reason is very simple, because dark chocolate is bitter. Eating a little bitter can lose weight and feel more acceptable to the public.

They then used Facebook to find participants in the experiment and wrote in a recruitment advertisement that it was a food-related research project with a bonus of 150 euros per person.

In the end, they found 5 men and 11 women, a total of 16 experimental volunteers.

The experimental process was very simple: the experimental subjects were randomly divided into three groups, a low-sugar weight loss group, a low-sugar and chocolate weight loss group, and a control group. The first two groups were asked to eat as much low-sugar foods as possible, while the control group was asked to maintain their existing diet.

The low-sugar and chocolate group was asked to eat more than 40 grams of dark chocolate a day.

In the end, only 15 people participated in the experiment. And each of them had to measure 18 data: weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sodium content, protein level, sleep quality, happiness...

The real trick lies in data analysis. Because the sample size is very small (15), it is very easy to have a correlation between the data. So when John was doing this experiment, he didn't think about the relationship between dark chocolate and which variable he was doing.

Just because the data analysis between cholesterol and dark chocolate yielded the best results, this study was artificially concluded that dark chocolate was beneficial to lowering cholesterol.

If any subject's hand shook at that time, it would probably become: "Eating dark chocolate is good for sleep quality, or reduces high blood pressure or something ~"

The next step was the submission process. After properly preparing the experimental methods, data analysis, conclusions and various charts, they submitted the research results to some journals that were not very rigorous academically, and received some replies agreeing to publish.

I finally chose: International Archives of Medicine, because the CEO stated that he could publish it for only 600 euros ~

Then they decided to play bigger if they wanted to play it ~ So they wrote a press release based on this research results.

The first one to be deceived was Germany's largest daily newspaper Bild Pictorial magazine, which wrote them a front-page headline... (Don't we say that all Germans are strict???)

Then things got out of hand, and millions began to believe that dark chocolate could lose weight...

Later, he shared the entire process of the experiment himself and called on everyone to be more rigorous when dealing with academics.

But who will take into account the mood of the majority of weight-loss girls?

Who will compensate for the mental damage we have grown innocent flesh?

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