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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
| Category: Nutrition Following on the heels of the low-fat-diet-has-few-benefits fiasco comes this marvellous Dutch study telling us that older men who ate the highest amount of cocoa were half as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as those who ate less or no cocoaBut just a coldarn moment, we can't offend the nutrition doctrinaires Experts warn, however, that the current study did not establish a causal relationship between cocoa use and the risk of death from heart disease and others, nor recommend eating cocoa to lower death risk because the long term effect of eating cocoa remains unknown.The message is quite clear... NOT! Also in the health game, this from the Hun VICTORIAN scientists have developed a vaccine for two dangerous animal viruses that can easily kill humans and could potentially be used by terrorists.How many button do they press in that single leading sentence? |
