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Prescription Strength Chocolate, Revisited
Science News ^
| Feb. 25, 2006
| Janet Raloff
Posted on 02/25/2006 11:46:48 AM PST by nickcarraway
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Raw cocoa beans, shown here nestled in their pods, contain huge amounts of heart-healthy flavanols. Commercially processing the beans to make cocoa powder strips away most of those compounds. Mars, however, determined how to retain them to make flavanol-rich cocoa for research trials—and for what it's now marketing as a heart-healthy snack.
To: nickcarraway
I need endless refills.
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posted on
02/25/2006 11:51:07 AM PST
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: nickcarraway
I hope all this means that I'm encouraged to eat more chocolate.
To: FoxInSocks
You can eat all of the chocolate that you want. Dark chocolate is a comfort food and therefore makes your mind and body work much better to keep illness's away.
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posted on
02/25/2006 12:12:02 PM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
To: nickcarraway
Oh great! That's all I need, a medical reason to eat more chocolate. And this with Lent around the corner ... talk about good timing!
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posted on
02/25/2006 12:34:54 PM PST
by
NearlyNormal
(Our military wins wars, the liberals and their MSM lose them.)
To: FoxInSocks
I hope all this means that I'm encouraged to eat more chocolate. Ditto.
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posted on
02/25/2006 1:18:59 PM PST
by
ContraryMary
(New Jersey -- Superfund cleanup capital of the U.S.A.)
To: Honeybunch
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posted on
02/25/2006 1:22:29 PM PST
by
OKSooner
To: FoxInSocks
Let all the world's Easter Bunnys/eggs tremble at thy ominous presence, Thy Great Flavanol-ness.
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posted on
02/25/2006 1:48:29 PM PST
by
ExcursionGuy84
("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
02/25/2006 1:50:37 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
To: satchmodog9
Let's permit liberals to take on the oil crisis and conservatives to take on reducing health care costs. Liberals can stop their addiction to oil and conservatives will eat more chocolate.
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posted on
02/25/2006 1:54:09 PM PST
by
Galveston Grl
(Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
To: NearlyNormal
Saw my 13 year old granddaughter in a t-shirt this week that said,"Hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt".
She is so cute.
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posted on
02/25/2006 2:01:41 PM PST
by
phil1750
(Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)
To: phil1750
"Hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt"That'd be a perfect gift for my wife for next Valentine's day! Come to think of it, it'd be perfect for her just about any day.
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posted on
02/25/2006 2:11:35 PM PST
by
NearlyNormal
(Our military wins wars, the liberals and their MSM lose them.)
To: nickcarraway
Bad news....
a healthy wallop of epicatechin and related compounds It seems epicatechin compounds are even more concentrated in..
Green Tea...
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posted on
02/25/2006 2:13:08 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
To: nickcarraway
This is an example of the articles which try to kill happy experiences. Eating chocolate, full of flavonoids or not, is one of my happier moments in any day. Thank God, I am free to decide for myself if the the risk(?) will be heeded or put out of my mind. I choose to put it out of my mind and enjoy to my "hearts" content.
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posted on
02/25/2006 2:13:47 PM PST
by
Frwy
To: Frwy; All
Somewhere there is a FReeper who has on their "About" page or within their tagline the phrase:
"Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate."
If anyone remembers who that is (and I'm sorry, I don't recall right at the moment, I must have a hairball...)
...please, Please, PLEASE Ping them to this thread :-)
This has been a public service announcement brought to you by the Almagamated Chocoholics' Union, Local 122. Thank you!
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posted on
02/25/2006 3:10:56 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Frwy
Almost forgot, in my last post.
Full Disclosure:
Cheers!
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posted on
02/25/2006 3:12:01 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: nickcarraway
Makes you want to tear open a Hershey bar with your teeth, doesn't it?
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posted on
02/25/2006 3:13:56 PM PST
by
Liz
(Liberty consists in having the power to do that which is permitted by the law. Cicero)
To: nickcarraway
Time to edit the food pyramid. I'm thinking a single brown circle this time.
To: nickcarraway
Prescription Strength Chocolate, Revisited ...goes a long way toward explaining Ray Nagin's public utterances post-Katrina.
(I can't tell you how shocked I am that I'm the first one in the last three hours or so to make that connection.
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posted on
02/25/2006 3:15:37 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(New Orleans has survived just about every disaster thrown at it, except possibly bad government.)
To: nickcarraway
I think that our government should regulate this potentially dangerous substance.
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