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Cocoa 'Vitamin' Health Benefits Could Outshine Penicillin
Science Daily ^
| March 11, 2007
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Posted on 03/12/2007 12:17:22 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
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Bring on the Hot Chocolate!
To: Ben Mugged
Interesting, thanks for sharing
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:24:13 PM PDT
by
Teflonic
To: Ben Mugged
And the Kuna people never die...
To: Ben Mugged
And a hot mug of epicatechin to you too.
To: Ben Mugged
I wonder about confounding variables. The same diseases are also reduced with regular exercise and a diet low in saturated fats.
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:27:16 PM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
To: dangerdoc
Hey now...don't interject logic!
Bring on the chocolate!
To: dangerdoc
The same diseases are also reduced with regular exercise and a diet low in saturated fats. More Ovaltine please!................
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:29:36 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Britney Spears shaved her head............Well, that's one way of getting rid of headlice.........)
To: dangerdoc
"The same diseases are also reduced with regular exercise and a diet low in saturated fats"
Not by the 90% suggested in the article...
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:31:42 PM PDT
by
babygene
(Never look into the laser with your last good eye...)
To: Red Badger
40 cups of cocoa a weekNot sure I could handle 6 cups of cocoa a day for the rest of my life.
My daughter OTOH...
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:37:36 PM PDT
by
L,TOWM
(Liberals, The Other White Meat [This is some nasty...])
To: Ben Mugged
Well, the addition of sugar undoes all the health benefits - so you have to drink it bitter, as they do. ;)
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:39:03 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: Ben Mugged
Could you just chew up a one-ounce square of Baker's Unsweetened Baking Chocolate? The stuff is 100% Cacao, and advertised as all natural.
OK, that was just cruel.
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:50:11 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(If you cannot bring yourself to condemn someone, at least make the praise as faint as possible.)
To: alloysteel
My daughter loves the stuff... Won't touch milk chocolate on her own... She will if I buy it for her though...
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:54:45 PM PDT
by
Freeport
To: L,TOWM
I like cocoa, chocolate, any and all forms, dark, light, bitter, etc. If this proves out, then investing in Nestles, Mars, Borden, etc would seem to be the new "hot" stock...........
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posted on
03/12/2007 12:58:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Britney Spears shaved her head............Well, that's one way of getting rid of headlice.........)
To: alloysteel
Could you just chew up a one-ounce square of Baker's Unsweetened Baking Chocolate? I'm up to one-ounce squares of bittersweet baking chocolate.
To: Mr. Jeeves
Well, the addition of sugar undoes all the health benefits - so you have to drink it bitter, as they do. ;)
I'm actually a fan of putting 1T of cocoa powder, <1T Splenda, and a couple shakes cinnamon powder in hot water. Not fatty or sugary, but tastes great. I could drink a couple of those per day (and sometimes do!)
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posted on
03/12/2007 1:11:57 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: Ben Mugged
a quick google of the science on this this, suggests that these claims are way bogus.
Flavonals found in fresh foods overall are beneficial. Epicatechin is just one, and not an especially powerful one.
The fats in Chocolate might easily offset any benefit.
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posted on
03/12/2007 1:12:46 PM PDT
by
Wiseghy
("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
To: Wiseghy
Norman Hollenberg, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told C&I that epicatechin is so important that it should be considered a vitamin. A healthy difference of opinion......
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posted on
03/12/2007 1:16:06 PM PDT
by
Ben Mugged
(Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
To: Wiseghy
Epicatechin is just one, and not an especially powerful one. The fats in Chocolate might easily offset any benefit.Killjoy!
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posted on
03/12/2007 1:25:32 PM PDT
by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
To: Ben Mugged
I wonder how many grams of cocoa powder per day he is talking about. I would be willing to take a couple of grams per day if it were in a tablet or capsule form. I'm not sure I could handle the taste day after day.
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posted on
03/12/2007 1:28:14 PM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
To: Red Badger
Yeah, but reading the last few posts on this thread make it seem like this could be another Garlic thing -- miracle vegatble that makes you live forever...
...except that it don't.
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posted on
03/12/2007 1:42:58 PM PDT
by
L,TOWM
(Liberals, The Other White Meat [This is some nasty...])
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