Want to Eat Chocolate Every Day For a Year?

Scientists from the University of East Anglia are studying the potential health benefits of dark chocolate, and need 40 female volunteers who would like to eat chocolate every day for a year. The chocolate loving 40 must be post-menopausal and have type 2 diabetes so it can be determined if the flavonoid compounds in chocolate can reduce the risk of heart disease. Dr Peter Curtis, of the UEA's School of Medicine, said, "Our first volunteers are about to return for their final visit to see if the markers of heart health - such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels — have changed. A successful outcome could be the first step in developing new ways to improve the lives of people at increased risk of heart disease."

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If there's a more underrepresented demographic...

[swillden]

... on slashdot than post-menopausal women, I don't know what it would be.

Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet Chastity Bono is kicking himself right now.

Re:If there's a more underrepresented demographic.

[Monkeedude1212]

Pre-Menopausal.

You're doing it wrong

[eln]

Seriously guys, this is why scientists can't get dates. You have a requirement for female volunteers to come to your lab and eat chocolate...this may be the experiment that actually gets you a woman for once. Then, you screw it all up by requiring that the women be post-menopausal with type 2 diabetes, guaranteeing you're going to get a bunch of fat old chicks. Seriously guys, if you really want to have fun with this study, you need to require that the women be 18-25, physically fit, and sexually attracted to glasses and pocket protectors. You know, for science. Surely you could come up with some sort of sciency rationalizations to justify those requirements.

Re:Anonymous Coward

[Anonymous Coward]

are you a lisp programmer?

Re:slashdot demographics

[Chyeld]

Slash DOT. Duh!

Re:If there's a more underrepresented demographic.

[Zerth]

Bisexual, attractive, nudist 19yo women who care more about her WoW character's latest adventure than shoes, that are looking to move into a basement, has a couple of friends of a similar nature that also need a place to stay, and hopes to trade their domestic skills in place of rent so they can afford the gigabit fiber drop, which they'd also share, but only if you agree to referee their jello-wrestling.

There's a problem here....

[sunderland56]

Finding 40 women willing to eat chocolate daily: easy.

Finding 40 women that will agree to NOT eat ANY chocolate for a year, as a control: yeah, good luck with that.

Chocolate science did it again!

[JJJK]

And here's your webcomic reference: PhD Comics

Re:If there's a more underrepresented demographic.

[Clandestine_Blaze]

Women.

Re:If there's a more underrepresented demographic.

[JCSoRocks]

I'm just going to go ahead and cut&paste that into craigslist and see if I get any responses. Even if you get a girl that meets 8 out of those 10... you're still well on your way to an awesome time.

Re:If there's a more underrepresented demographic.

[Anonymous Coward]

So it's okay to leave off 'attractive' and 'women', then?

Re:slashdot demographics

[clone53421]

You'd better not be thinking of the children.