A short history of Quakers w/relivance to Free Staters

[Russell Kanning]

even worse .... curing people

[Lloyd Danforth]

At the Chocolate Clinic in Southwest Grafton.

[jerry]

Oh so now are you not only running an
outlaw chocolate factory. Your also
practicing medicine with out a license!

I'm just following the advice of my doctor, who emailed me the announcement of the chocolate study.

--Save the Earth.....It's the only known planet with chocolate.

[Pat K]

Yes and more importantly Beer!!!!!!!!!

[jerry]

More scientific evidence for chocolate being healthy in mass quantities:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57405100-10391704/eating-lots-of-chocolate-helps-people-stay-thin-study-finds/

Eating lots of chocolate helps people stay thin, study finds
CBS News) What's the best way to stay thin? A new study finds it's exercising and eating a healthy diet full of - chocolate?
The study found that people who frequently ate chocolate had a lower body mass index (BMI) than people who didn't.

Is it time to ditch fat-free for fudge?


For the study, published in the March 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers examined more than 1,000 healthy men and women who were free of heart disease, diabetes and cholesterol problems. They were all enrolled in another study that measured the effects of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, but for this study researchers assigned them questionnaires that gauged how often participants chowed down on chocolate.

The researchers found that the participants - who were an average age of 57 - ate chocolate for an average of twice of week and exercised roughly 3.5 times per week. But the more frequent chocolate-eaters had smaller BMIs, a ratio of height and weight that's used to measure obesity.

What explains the effect? Even though chocolate can be loaded with calories, it's full of antioxidants and other ingredients that may promote weight loss, the researchers said.

"I was pretty happy with this news myself," study author Dr. Beatrice Golomb, associate professor of medicine at the University of California-San Diego, told USA Today. "Findings show the composition of calories, not just the number of them, matters for determining ultimate weight."

Does that mean all diet regimens should include a daily chocolate bar? The researchers say it's too soon to tell.

"Our findings - that more frequent chocolate intake is linked to lower BMI - are intriguing," the authors wrote. However, "It is not a siren call to go out and eat 20 pounds of chocolate a day," Golomb told HealthDay.

This isn't the first study to suggest a daily dose of chocolate can do the body good. Last summer, a study of more than 100,000 people found those who ate the most chocolate were 39 percent less likely to get heart disease and 29 percent less likely to have a stroke, HealthPop reported. Months later a 10-year study of 33,000 women found a 30 percent reduced risk of stroke among chocaholics.

But experts warn not all chocolate is created equal, and some could contain lots of sugar and calories, which could lead to other health issues if consumed daily.

"I would not want people reading this to think that all [they] need to do to lose weight is eat more chocolate," Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale Prevention Research Center in New Haven, Conn., told WebMD. "That would be a huge mistake." Katz suggests dark chocolate, because of its bitter flavor,  may suppress appetite whereas sweet chocolate may stimulate it.

[Russell Kanning]

I am having a wonderful chocolate, peach, and banana smoothie with raw milk full of cream. mmmmmmmm

[Sheep Fuzzy Wool]

Chocolate. I sign in, and read, "chocolate." 
Thanks!
Going to make something chocolate (without Quaker oats as a filler) to eat. BRB...

[jerry]

New studies on the benefits of mass quantities of chocolate continue:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/11/researcher-more-chocolate-consumption-linked-with-more-nobel-prizes/

More chocolate consumption linked with more Nobel prizes

The more chocolate people in a country eat, the more Nobel prize winners the country produces per capita, according to a note published Thursday in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

Flavonoids, antioxidants found in cocoa, green tea, red wine and some fruits, appear "to be effective in slowing down or even reversing the reductions in cognitive performance that occur with aging," wrote Columbia University professor Franz Messerli.

"Since chocolate consumption could hypothetically improve cognitive function not only in individuals but also in whole populations, I wondered whether there would be a correlation between a country's level of chocolate consumption and its population's cognitive function," Messerli wrote.

The results were surprising: according to Messerli, there was "a close, significant linear correlation between chocolate consumption per capita and the number of Nobel laureates per 10 million persons in a total of 23 countries."

Chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, which ancient Aztecs and Mayas drank as a beverage. Spanish conquistadors introduced cocoa to Europe in the 16th century, and the Swiss perfected modern chocolate bars in the 19th century.

Not surprisingly, Switzerland "was the top performer in terms of both the number of Nobel laureates and chocolate consumption," wrote Messerli, who said he obtained figures on chocolate consumption from manufacturers.

The United States, France and Germany are in the middle of the list, while China, Japan and Brazil are at the bottom.

Sweden, which consumes 6.4 kilos of chocolate per capita per year, was an exception. Based on this rate of consumption "we would predict that Sweden should have produced a total of about 14 Nobel laureates, yet we observe 32."

So either the Stockholm-based Nobel Committee "has some inherent patriotic bias when assessing the candidates for these awards" or Swedes "are particularly sensitive to chocolate, and even minuscule amounts greatly enhance their cognition."

[dalebert]

So either the Stockholm-based Nobel Committee "has some inherent patriotic bias when assessing the candidates for these awards" or Swedes "are particularly sensitive to chocolate, and even minuscule amounts greatly enhance their cognition."

So it's either racism or chocolate is kinda like saying "it's either the more obvious and simple reason or the more obscure contrived reason."

[Russell Kanning]

Haha
That is just the cocoa talking Dale