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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."
I'm sure the post-menopausal, type-2 diabetic woman that regularly reads slashdot appreciates knowing about this study.
... on slashdot than post-menopausal women, I don't know what it would be.
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I bet Chastity Bono is kicking himself right now.
Pre-Menopausal.
with type-2 diabetes.
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Given that Chocolate is an Aphrodisiac, I hope that change would be for the better.
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It sure as hell made me think of my dear old mother-in-law!
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Just FYI: Flavonoids are polycyclic aromatic molecules, capable of absorbing free radicals through their conjugated bonds (i.e. moving the unpaired electron around so that a built-up of charge is not created (which drastically lowers its reactivity (and therefore stops a free radical's harmful effects (like the hydroxyl radical, which is used by fungi to invade the cell walls of wood (which is why flavonoids are being explored as wood preservatives, and why the Osage Orange tree is naturally resistant to fungi (since it has a natural abundance of flavonoids)))))). Flavonoids are good at absorbing the harmful affects of free radicals (unpaired electrons) in the body, and this can be a very good thing :)
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.
I think the only way they could really make this work would be to have a much larger sample group balanced out with a control group of equal size willing to swear off chocolate for the duration of the experiment. There will definitely be huge changes in each woman's health over the year, and I don't think that 40 is a large enough sample to clear out the statistical noise, especially without a control group. So pretty much, this whole thing is just an extraordinary waste of time.
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Dark chocolate is relatively low in sugars compared to other forms of chocolate. Many Type 2 diabetes patients can handle sugar, without insulin, in limited quantities. If there are health benefits from the dark chocolate, expending some of your limited sugar intake on dark chocolate may be worth it, particularly if one of the benefits is to mitigate other risks related to diabetes.
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Candy is basically sweet by definition. Dark chocolate contains very little sugar (how little depends on how dark the chocolate is). Try some dark chocolate with an 80 or 90% cacao content and then tell me it's candy. Mmmm... if you don't want to finish that, I'll eat it.
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Jeanne Calment, the oldest person who had ever lived, ate a kilo of chocolate every week.
More interesting is that she smoked until the age of 117. As with Henry Allingham, who credited cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women - and a good sense of humour for his longevity.
I'll be picking up some Lucky Strike and prostitute this evening and do my own study.
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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.
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No problem, they just need to climb up one floor from their basement and voila, they can show the article to their mother :).
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I'm not sure what exactly you have against a perfectly natural food. If we were arguing about saltine crackers or bagels with cream cheese or something I could understand it, but this not so much.
Really dark chocolate doesn't have all that many calories. It's not that fatty. It isn't loaded with sugar. (Have you ever had, say, 80% dark chocolate? It's quite bitter, very slightly dry, and 90% is even more so...) I'd personally expect that it would be somewhat difficult to get a comparable amount of calories of dark chocolate compared to any reasonable amount of steak. (Hershey's "dark" chocolate, which is loaded with sugar and fat, doesn't count, of course.)
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All that dark chocolate might help them crap out all sorts of unhealthier things they ate months prior to the test. Hopefully, they drink enough water so they don't become a diuretic diabetic in dire need of a medic.
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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.
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So it's okay to leave off 'attractive' and 'women', then?
Keep in mind, that chocolates may have cocoa butter added, but very rarely do they have cocoa butter removed. What this means, is that baking chocolate is a lower bound for the amount of fat in dark chocolate. I have already shown that baking chocolate is very fatty, which implies that dark chocolate is, and I have nothing more to say here.
Yes, vegetable fats may be "healthier" overall (although I think the benefit is overstated), but the fact is, there is still an awful lot of them in chocolate; and a lot of them are saturated...
In re how "natural" various foods are, your subjective taxonomy is of no interest to me.
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The study actually uses extremely bitter cocoa powder, not sweet and tasty chocolate. The study is on the antioxidants in the cocoa powder. When sweetened, the antioxidants are destroyed. So, you have to choke down a nasty bitter powder every morning. Not something most people are willing to do.
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Most of the regular girls, Bethanie, Silly Pixie, Queenoftheonering, whoever else... They left (figuratively and literally) to Multiply quite some time ago.
Some of these guys who post journals are married - but for the larger demographic, you have better chances finding a woman in the L.A. Galaxy locker room, trying to get a peek at Beckham's bend.
The rest? Well, I have two words: Joanna Rutkowska.
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Who cares if it's a waste of time - they want you to eat chocolate. :)
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