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AN excuse to eat Chocolate??
Posted by Raven on February 21st, 2006
Gross. Talk about a bunch of misleading pure bullshit. LOL. I HATE candy bars. I LOVE chocolate coffee and thats about the only thing I’ll go choco for. The candy bar makers are having a hey day with the DARK CHOCOLATE is GOOD FOR YOU myth.
Mars Inc., maker of Milky Way, Snickers and M&M’s candies, next month plans to launch nationwide a new line of products made with a dark chocolate the company claims has health benefits.
Called CocoaVia, the products are made with a kind of dark chocolate high in flavanols, an antioxidant found in cocoa beans that is thought to have a blood-thinning effect similar to aspirin and may even lower blood pressure. The snacks also are enriched with vitamins and injected with cholesterol-lowering plant sterols from soy.
KEY WORD: that is THOUGHT to have blood-thinning…..it’s not a scientific fact and I wouldn’t bet a penny on this stuff being AT all good for you. Damn people are so stupid- and so desparate for an excuse to eat foods that are so unhealthy…they will believe anything. Including this type of bulloney. (Yes I’m calling the many millions of people who eat chocolateSTUPID. You are.)
But researchers are skeptical about using chocolate for its medicinal purposes and experts warn it’s no substitute for a healthy diet.
“To suggest that chocolate is a health food is risky,” said Bonnie Liebman, nutrition director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Recent research has not established a link between flavanols and a reduced risk of cancer or heart disease, she said. And with obesity already a serious health problem, “the last thing we need is for Americans to think they can eat more chocolate.”
At least someone is daring to put out a potential fire here with this. It’s all in people’s head- this heaven and chocolate connection. It’s not real and people are STUPID. ‘Nuff said.
