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Chocolate is better for your cough than cough syrup, study says
6ABC ^ | January 16, 2019

Posted on 01/16/2019 8:00:04 AM PST by SMGFan

NEW YORK -- It may sound too good to be true, but researchers now say indulging in that piece of chocolate is actually the best cure for your cough.

A research group from a university in England randomly prescribed more than 160 patients either regular cough medicine or a chocolate-based medicine.

Patients on the chocolate-based medication reported improving more quickly than those on regular cough syrup.

(Excerpt) Read more at 6abc.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chocolate; coughsyrup
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To: SMGFan
I wondered why I quit coughing when I ate the Christmas fudge. 😊
21 posted on 01/16/2019 8:40:49 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: JimRed

My God my mother told me that in the 1950s. Can’t these Whipper Snappers come up with anything NEW.


22 posted on 01/16/2019 8:44:58 AM PST by carmen2017
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To: SMGFan
I pop 500 mg Vitamin C for two days and voila....it's gone.

But I'll eat chocolate. It soothes my throat.

23 posted on 01/16/2019 8:46:14 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: texas booster
International Society for the Study of Cough

How do I get membership in such an organization. It sounds like something out of a Monty Python skit.
24 posted on 01/16/2019 8:46:30 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: SMGFan

Rush discussed this a few days ago. Said he always has better results with chocolate than meds when it comes to coughing. He thought it was just unique to him, I guess, and didn’t realize it’s “a thing”.


25 posted on 01/16/2019 8:50:03 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: SMGFan

Pineapple has more bromethalin in it than does many cough suppressants. Next time I get coughing I’m going to eat chocolate and pineapple.


26 posted on 01/16/2019 8:52:43 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: SMGFan

But it’s hard to walk around with a bag of melted chocolates in your pocket.


27 posted on 01/16/2019 8:54:34 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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To: vetvetdoug

“Next time I get coughing I’m going to eat chocolate and pineapple.”

Sounds like the beginning of a banana split to me. I’m comfortable with that.


28 posted on 01/16/2019 8:55:47 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: lysie

You ever taste FAKE Chocolate Flavoring? 100 degrees different than the Real stuff, even the cheapo stuff. Just get a bag of Hershey’s kisses or Dove’s, and let them melt in your mouth, save your taste buds the Horror of FAKE Flavoring.

I prefer Spearmint candy, does the throat and stuffy nose.


29 posted on 01/16/2019 9:12:10 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: spacejunkie2001

I’m guessing things that naturally taste wonderful are health foods...


30 posted on 01/16/2019 9:15:12 AM PST by GOPJ (Replace furloughed government workers with illegals for ten bucks an hour. Show dems how it feels.)
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To: texas booster

Having a hubby who is a Chocoholic, with Pneumonia coughing his lungs up, still consuming Chocolate, I can tell you it doesn’t work. He even consumes quantities of jelly beans he lets melt in his mouth.

Heaving coughing try Tesslon Perles script. 2 pills a day. Even a Glaucoma patient can have them. My mom broke ribs coughing from Bronchitis.


31 posted on 01/16/2019 9:17:34 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: SMGFan

Buckley’s cough mixture. Nuff said.


32 posted on 01/16/2019 9:17:44 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says)
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To: SMGFan
Science at it’s best!

https://www.drgreene.com/dark-chocolate-coughs/

https://nutrineat.com/dark-chocolate-for-cough

https://www.everydayhealth.com/cold-and-flu/1210/chocolate-a-cure-for-the-common-cough-4924.aspx

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/759259/how-to-cure-cough

33 posted on 01/16/2019 9:19:02 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Red Badger
This is the only planet in the entire universe that has chocolate.

It is the only planet in the entire universe that has liberals.

34 posted on 01/16/2019 9:25:27 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
But it's hard to walk around with a bag of melted chocolates in your pocket.

Get some M&M's. "Melts in your mouth, not in your pocket."

35 posted on 01/16/2019 9:26:19 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: GailA
It looks like that all chocolate provides is stickiness, to allow any medicine to stay in the throat for longer, or to soothe the throat.

We still need more than chocolate (even dark chocolate) to help our throats.

But it does taste better than Robitussin ...

36 posted on 01/16/2019 9:31:08 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: SMGFan

Nice... New cough syrup flavor... Hershey’s...


37 posted on 01/16/2019 10:29:21 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: lee martell

It tastes like liquid Ajax with salt added...not sure how you know what liquid Ajax tastes like...


38 posted on 01/16/2019 10:48:40 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Deplorable American1776

Let’s just say that I lost a bet back in First Grade.


39 posted on 01/16/2019 10:51:11 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: lee martell

My Granny dosed us with a teaspoon of sugar saturated with kerosene (coal oil, as she called it.)


40 posted on 01/16/2019 10:52:55 AM PST by MisterArtery
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