On 29 Jan 2002, at 23:33, Jane Ross wrote: > I have a dear friend who has had a thalomotomy several years ago. > Since then her speech has been slurred and soft, certainly not > distinct enough to be understood in front of a group, but she came > to speak to my support group and a 1/2 hour after eating a chocolate > bar her voice was near normal. > > I know this sounds so bizarre, but when I was at NIH for a PD study, > this subject came up and I told this story to those doctors and they > knew of the chocolate phenomena or knew of an ingredient in > chocolate that could help speech. > > jjjane > Hi JJJane, I was sorta savin' this for Valentines Day .... Chocolate http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/exploring_chocolate/ This is your brain on chocolate... http://whyfiles.org/033love/choco.html cheers ........ murray [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn