Chocolate is a health food
Bookworm on Sep 19 2009 at 2:54 pm | Filed under: Health
As someone whose addiction to chocolate is legendary amongst those who know her, this can only be good news:
In a study that will provide comfort to chocoholics everywhere, researchers in Sweden have found evidence that people who eat chocolate have increased survival rates after a heart attack — and it may be that the more they eat, the better.
The scientists followed 1,169 nondiabetic men and women who had been hospitalized for a first heart attack. Each filled out a standardized health questionnaire that included a question about chocolate consumption over the past 12 months. Chocolate contains flavonoid antioxidants that are widely believed to have beneficial cardiovascular effects.
The patients had a health examination three months after their discharge from the hospital, and researchers followed them for the next eight years using Swedish national registries of hospitalizations and deaths. After controlling for age, sex, obesity, physical inactivity, smoking, education and other factors, they found that the more chocolate people consumed, the more likely they were to survive. The results are reported in the September issue of The Journal of Internal Medicine.
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My daughter’s reaction was that it’s also known to repel Dementors!
But, what does she know? She majored in psychology, and this is “real science”.
But, you can trust me, because *I* have a PhD in “science”…..
I smell a commie ploy. Congress will add free chocolate coverage to Obamacare, thereby gutting GOP and anti-statist resistance. SEIU thugs will spray Obamacare opponents with chocolate mist at town halls. As conservative women swoon, their male companions will have to drag them away, depleting the meetings of necessary testoteronic counterpoint and energy.
“Woe unto ye, Israel, that thou should betrayest the Lord thy G-d with thine unseemly love for Canaanite carob!”—Isaiah 324:2-6.
Ah, I think that this may be the one “guilty pleasure” food that will taste just as good knowing that’s good for you!
Once again my M&Ms addiction is vindicated! I feel terribly righteous now.
Hehehee!
Whoo-Hoo!
Today’s headline of note, a quote by a recent U.N. report:
Swine flu ‘could kill millions unless rich nations give £900m’
Whew! I thought for a moment they were talking about the USA, but we’re staggering under such a load of debt that we’re actually closer to the poorhouse than “rich”. Thank God we’re off the hook for *this* particular redistribution scheme.
I’m sure we’ll give plenty of money, but out of charity, not guilt.
And hopefully we’ll give the money to those poor countries that actually make a serious effort to educate their people and limit the spread of the virus on their own. Why help those who refuse to help themselves?
Hey…everybody keeps talking about population control and the bursting world population…maybe we should just let nature do her thing. Stop interfering…!
Scientists discovered that cocoa has health benefits when they noticed that the Kuna tribe, off Panama, did not suffer from cardiovascular disease of any kind for centuries. They noticed that the Kuna diet included a lot of pure cocoa (cacao) in various unadulterated forms. Bitter sweet or dark chocolate has a high content of pure cocoa. But chocolate tea like CocoPure have the purest form with the highest antioxidant value. It is also combined with green tea and resveratrol; both have high antioxidant value and benefit heart health. It’s also great for people who want to boost their immunity and for those on a diet since it’s just 30 calories a serving, and yet gives you a deliciously satisfying chocolate kick!