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Chocolate Can Help Keep You Cancer Free
Newsmax ^ | 6/23/08 | Sylvia Booth Hubbard

Posted on 06/23/2008 12:26:42 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks

Enjoy your chocolate with less guilt – a study at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, which is affiliated with Georgetown University Medical Center, has found that a synthetic chemical based on a compound found in cocoa beans slows the growth of cancerous tumors and speeds their destruction.

“We have all heard that eating chocolate is good for you; this study suggests one reason why that might be true,” said researcher Min Kim, Ph.D. “This chemical seems to be safe, which makes sense because it has a structure similar to a natural product in cocoa beans, the same beans used to make chocolate,” he says.

Even better, the concentrations of the chemical tested in the study weren’t excessive. “The effective concentrations were considered similar to what a person might eat or use,” he says.

Kim and his team of researchers found that the chemical, known as GECGC, was effective against colon, cervical, and one line of leukemia cells. Growth of colon cancer cells was cut in half, and the chemical damaged most of the tumor cells.

GECGC was most effective against fast-growing cancers and was so effective against colon cancer,...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cancer; chocolate; health
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1 posted on 06/23/2008 12:26:43 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I LUV Chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 06/23/2008 12:32:55 PM PDT by devane617 (we are so screwed)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Yehaww!! It’s my favorite food group!


3 posted on 06/23/2008 12:35:02 PM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash (Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas, Rosie ODonnell, Maureen Dowd - The Axis of Ugly)
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To: Monkey Face

Chocolate, little girl?


4 posted on 06/23/2008 12:35:37 PM PDT by null and void (every Muslim, the minute he can start differentiating, carries hate of Americans, Jews & Christians)
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To: Monkey Face

Chocolate, little girl?


5 posted on 06/23/2008 12:35:43 PM PDT by null and void (every Muslim, the minute he can start differentiating, carries hate of Americans, Jews & Christians)
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To: devane617

I know of a 310 lb. lady who will never get cancer.


6 posted on 06/23/2008 12:38:28 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Hmmm, wonder what the cancer rate is in New Orleans?


7 posted on 06/23/2008 12:42:28 PM PDT by Eclectic Horseman
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To: devane617

Three cheers for chocolate! I’m eating M&Ms right now!

Even way back in the seventies a doctor told me eating M&Ms was not “bad” at all — except for the high calorie count. But a reasonably healthy treat, heck yeah!


8 posted on 06/23/2008 12:42:40 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Clint N. Suhks
I'll take some of that.  Purely for the health benifits.


9 posted on 06/23/2008 12:45:03 PM PDT by bird4four4 (Behead those who suggest Islam is violent!)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Thought you’d like this. ;-)


10 posted on 06/23/2008 12:46:24 PM PDT by Allegra (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Here you go:

http://explore.georgetown.edu/documents/34370/?PageTemplateID=141

Hank


11 posted on 06/23/2008 12:47:48 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief

Thanks for the link Hank!


12 posted on 06/23/2008 12:57:07 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks ( Does 10 centipedes = 1 millipede?)
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To: Allegra

Oh Baby!
Chocolate ROCKS!

Thank you for the ping!!! Here, have a candy bar!!!....!!!


13 posted on 06/23/2008 12:59:15 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Typical Whitey Gramma just like Obamies!)
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To: unkus

there is an ice-cream shop down the street from me...the marble slab, that is heaven on earth...double dutch chocolate, with walnuts, in a waffle bowl...that is my dinner menu for tonight...


14 posted on 06/23/2008 1:05:59 PM PDT by devane617 (we are so screwed)
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To: null and void

You rang?

Cross my palm with chocolate and I’ll follow you anywhere!


15 posted on 06/23/2008 1:11:35 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.")
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Okaaaaaaaaay! Pass me another one. I can’t decide which is the second best thing in the world, chocolate or wine, but fortunately we don’t have to decide or make a choice, and all three are good for us! Ah! What a wonderful world!


16 posted on 06/23/2008 1:12:29 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Vote Republican = Vote NO to the Radical Left!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Pssssssssssssst -— over here!!!!


17 posted on 06/23/2008 1:16:38 PM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: devane617

I love Marble Slab. Your dinner sounds good — ever think about almonds instead of walnuts?


18 posted on 06/23/2008 1:17:00 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: Clint N. Suhks
What Meowmeow Concluded About Cancer After Having Cancer:

Anyone can get cancer.
You can exercise and eat right and get cancer.
You can never exercise, eat crap and get cancer.
You can get cancer in any part of your body.
You can get cancer in parts of your body you never even heard of.
You can get cancer if people in your family had cancer.
You can get cancer if no one in your family ever had cancer.

Don't ever think that DOING SOMETHING or NOT DOING SOMETHING will spare you from cancer.

On the bright side, medical technology is pretty good these days so if you get cancer, you can probably survive - some are worse than others.

Cancer mainly taught me to eat, drink and make merry...

Enjoy all the chocolate you want - but don't kid yourself about articles like this.

19 posted on 06/23/2008 1:45:25 PM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: Clint N. Suhks

If the synthetic actually works, then the real thing must work at least ten times as well. Who needs the synthetic?


20 posted on 06/23/2008 2:20:31 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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