"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Food of the Gods: In honor of the recent discovery of 2,600 year old traces of chocolate in a jug, here is a link to the medicinal history of chocolate. It seems as if those Europeans ingested as medicine just about everything they found in the New World: tobacco, coffee, chocolate. There is, however, some justification for all of these being used medically, although our forefathers couldn’t have known it. Nicotine, caffeine, and theobromine (the medically active ingredient in chocolate) all resemble theophylline(scroll down past the caffeine image), a drug used for asthma.
(Note: I make no claims for that tofu-chocolate pie recipe in the medical chocolate link. Haven't tried it. Never will. I like my chocolate unadulterated by health foods.) posted by Sydney on
7/18/2002 08:16:00 AM
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