Just goes to show what I have maintained for years, your body lets you know
what you need if you learn to listen. I eat whatever I have a craving for
much to the chagrin of my wife. There have been so many reversals over the
years as to "good for you"  ---   "bad for you", we probably get an
unhealthy reaction from going on and off the stuff (eggs, coffee, you name
it) just as we do with our meds. I kinda agree with Paul Harvey, too much of
anything is bad for you (with an obvious exception)!

Now, where did I stash that Snickers bar in my desk. Whoops, I've got just
enough time to eat it before it's time for a smoke break. Only problem I've
noticed is chocolate doesn't go too well with beer!

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> From:         Roger Buxton[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Tuesday, August 10, 1999 1:55 PM
> Subject:      Antioxidants
>
> News cannot get much better than the following report which appeared in
> the Globe and Mail newspaper on Friday August 6 1999.
>
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>
> GO-AHEAD, EAT THAT CHOCOLATE: DOCTORS NOW SAY IT'S GOOD FOR YOU
>
> Reuters News Agency, London
>
>
> Feeling guilty about that chocolate snack?  Well, don't.  Researchers
> have finally confirmed what the industry has said for years: chocolate
> is a good source of the kind of antioxidants found in tea.
>
> A studied by Dutch doctors analyzed chocolate to quantify the amount of
> catechins, from the family of flavonoids.
>
> Flavonoids are among the most powerful antioxidants, compounds that
> protect against chemicals in the body, called free radicals, that damage
> cells.
>
> Some scientists have said that because of the flavonoids in tea,
> drinking one or more cups a day can reduce the risk of having a heart
> attack.
>
> "Drinking a cup of tea and eating a chocolate cookie might be not only
> enjoyable, but healthy as well," the doctors wrote in the medical
> journal The Lancet, published today.
>
> The study was carried out by doctors from the Department of Chronic
> Diseases and Epidemiology at the National Institute of Public Health and
> Environment in Bilthoven with the support of the European Union
> Commission.
>
> "The antioxidant content of chocolate is four times that of tea," they
> wrote.
>
> They found that chocolate contributed 20 percent of the catechin intake
> in a sample of the Dutch population while tea contributed 55 percent.
>
> And for real chocolate connoisseurs, the researchers looked into which
> chocolate was better: dark or milk chocolate.
>
> Dark chocolate had the highest catechin content, milk chocolate had
> less, but both had more than black tea, they said.
>
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>
> To which I say, "What? Only one cookie?" Now, all we need is Kathrynne's
> blessing. Happy eating!
>
>
> Roger Buxton  CG for Judy Hazlett (49 / 29 dx)
>
> P.S. My apologies in case anyone else submitted this, but I was cut off
> from PIENET over the past weekend.
>