New Chocolate Helps Type 2 Diabetes

[Aphos]

http://toadfishmonastery.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=32&board=11.0

The Mars Company is claiming their research shows a new type of chocolate helps circulation in Type 2 diabetics.

Perhaps there is a god after all.

[pieces o nine]

But of course there is a god.

First, she gives you a nice playground, maybe with big, shady trees. Then she gives you some nice long ... grass. Then she gives you the brains to think up making rope from the ... grass. Then she watches, bemused, as you hang yerself with that rope. Then she gives you a friend wot just invented scissors to cut the rope. Then she sends another friend to bandage the injuries you sustained falling from the tree, while entangled in rope shreds. Then, she sends everyone else around to observe, have a good laugh, and, hopefully, learn from you. And they share round some chocolate while observing.

Of course, the only thing that happens is that each one thinks (respectively) of new and better ways to make ropes, scissors and first aid supplies. (But at least one of them will always be working on New and Improved Chocolate!)

[Darlica]

 
Goes to Po'9!

[Sibling Chatty]

E-science linky:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/05/26/natural.compounds.cocoa.tied.blood.flow.improvements.adults.with.type.2.diabetes

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

E-science linky:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/05/26/natural.compounds.cocoa.tied.blood.flow.improvements.adults.with.type.2.diabetes

Cool! 

So that if there actually exists a person who doesn't actually like chocolate [shudder!] they can isolate the active chemicals, and they may benefit, too?

Or, more seriously, if a person is allergic to real chocolate/coco, perhaps they may not be to the useful chemicals....

....was "supposed" to be seriously allergic to chocolate, and rarely had any as a kid.

Stupid "doctors".  Just by-guess-and-by-golly in those days, with regards to allergies.

I had to learn to appreciate chocolate pretty much as an adult. 

[Sibling Chatty]

Chocolate is wonderful if you leave out the milk and most of the sugar...

Dark, bittersweet chocolate. It is the best, and the healthiest!

[pieces o nine]

My SIL claims to dislike chocolate...

[Sibling Chatty]

My SIL claims to dislike chocolate...

You tie her to the stake, I'll borrow a lighter.

She's bound to be an evil alien.

Or something...

[pieces o nine]

My SIL claims to dislike chocolate...

You tie her to the stake, I'll borrow a lighter.

She's bound to be an evil alien.

Or something...

Or something, I think.

I did evilly think that if one were to smear hand sanitizer on the said chocolate, it might rate a second glance from her.
(She is 'addicted' to hand sanitizer.)

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

My SIL claims to dislike chocolate...

You tie her to the stake, I'll borrow a lighter.

She's bound to be an evil alien.

Or something...

Or something, I think.

I did evilly think that if one were to smear hand sanitizer on the said chocolate, it might rate a second glance from her.
(She is 'addicted' to hand sanitizer.)

Why, suddenly, did I flash on a scene from the movie, As Good As It Gets?

[anthrobabe]

My SIL claims to dislike chocolate...

You tie her to the stake, I'll borrow a lighter.

She's bound to be an evil alien.

Or something...

Or something, I think.

I did evilly think that if one were to smear hand sanitizer on the said chocolate, it might rate a second glance from her.
(She is 'addicted' to hand sanitizer.)

Why, suddenly, did I flash on a scene from the movie, As Good As It Gets?

see it's the hand sanitizer that did it--- hand sanitizer when used improperly is not a good thing-- one more bit of proof-- it kills the chocolate part of a persons brain as well as beneficial bacteria. I saw a bottle of hand sanitzer the other day that is now trumpeting the fact that it is the only brand not to be show to cause antibacterial resistant bacteria strains of course their marketing co had dressed it up to sound pretty and all-- wish I could find a photo to link-- but that is what it said
sigh
even excessive use of gelled alcohol is not a good thing

[Sibling Chatty]

Whatever happened to soap and water?? If it's good enough for my surgeon, you think it'd work for everyday life.

Dang it, the human hand is NOT a non-porous surface that you can continually drown in chemicals, even if they are antibacterial chemicals.

[Griffin NoName]

Hand sanitiser has it's uses. I keep a spray by my bed. It saves having to get up and fetch water. I've never used it for hands though I do use it for my arm. And it's perfect for "personal objects"

[anthrobabe]

right it has it's uses for certain times/items
hey that might make that wrong way tilted bed at base camp interesting

[Sibling Chatty]

Yep. Does nicely for "I am NOT moving outta the bed" clean-ups.

There's a woman that I used to see at MD Anderson who carried a BIG bottle of it, plus a can of Lysol spray everywhere. Didn't glove and mask, just this VAT of stuff...and shed use it after touching anything, even a magazine or a door knob. SHE didn't have cancer, her mother did, but she wasn't "taking any chances" with all the germs. (The staff finally told her to quit spraying Lysol on everything because it was nauseating to the rest of us that were sick.)

I do love our topic drift around here...