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Bring On The Chocolate: Study Finds Chocolate Can Protect From Skin Cancer
947TheWave ^
| July 29, 2012
| Brie?
Posted on 08/05/2012 3:42:50 AM PDT by Daffynition
A new article in Allure magazine is so sweet it will make you shed tears of joy! Chocolate can protect you from skin cancer!
It turns out chocolate doesn’t just provide comfort on a rough day — a new study reports that chocolate helps protect against UV rays. Better yet, this isn’t a matter of slathering chocolate fondue all over your body.
The Journal of Nutrition reports that the superfood contains antioxidants epicatechin and catechin that shield skin from the sun- only when you eat it. Women who consumed 326 milligrams of high-flavanol cocoa per day for 12 weeks had decreased sensitivity to UV light versus the participants who ingested just 27 milligrams per day.
(Excerpt) Read more at 947thewave.cbslocal.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chocolate; skincancer
Huh? Did I read this article right?
To: Daffynition; don-o
Yeah.
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posted on
08/05/2012 4:04:49 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!" - Lucy Van Pelt)
To: Mrs. Don-o
In a few years....it is written....:)
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posted on
08/05/2012 4:16:54 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
There is no ill or malady that a Snickers bar can’t cure. To deny that fact is to deny reallity itself. I hope I haven’t overstated anything here!!!
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posted on
08/05/2012 4:21:31 AM PDT
by
ontap
To: ontap
No argument from me!
When I consumed candy bars....I always thought the peanuts in a Snickers tasted stale....so I avoided them. Preferred Milky Way...to each their own. :P
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posted on
08/05/2012 4:30:52 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
Pure dark chocolate like Dagoba 74% or Theo 70% are nearly perfect. Maybe they are perfect.
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posted on
08/05/2012 4:47:07 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Legalize Freedom!!)
To: muir_redwoods
Pure dark chocolate like Dagoba 74% or Theo 70% are nearly perfect. They are. Much over that, ick! The 94% is like baker's chocolate.
Myself, I live by 3 little words.
Dove
dark
chocolate.
YUM!
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posted on
08/05/2012 4:51:20 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I am a Person as Created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
To: Daffynition
There's peanuts in Snicker bars???
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posted on
08/05/2012 5:10:49 AM PDT
by
ontap
To: muir_redwoods
Admittedly, I've been hooked/spolied on Belgian chocolate.....until I discovered Champlain Chocolate and the especially divine *Aztec* spiced with pepitas. No other word but *divine*. :P
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posted on
08/05/2012 5:25:00 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
Yes but it does not prevent a wide ass.
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posted on
08/05/2012 5:28:01 AM PDT
by
angcat
(Without Valor there is no hope.)
To: ontap
Have you ever tried Snickers Pie?
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posted on
08/05/2012 5:28:46 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: MamaTexan
Heaven on a stick!
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posted on
08/05/2012 5:31:47 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
Heaven on a stick!Oh, great.... now I have something else to try to avoid looking at in the grocery store!
(I can't help it. Chocolate calls to me)
LOL!
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posted on
08/05/2012 5:39:17 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I am a Person as Created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
To: Daffynition
Admittedly, I've been hooked/spolied on Belgian chocolate.....until I discovered Champlain Chocolate and the especially divine *Aztec* spiced with pepitas. No other word but *divine*. Looks familiar, I think I have tried another in their line of chocolates, they are good...
But, Oh no, another freerepublic food thread that will go 300 post, increase our waistline, have people drooling on their keyboards and eventually get to ribs, pork, all meats and eventually the gateway drug for vegetarians bacon.
Now tie that in with chocolate covered bacon and I predict 500 post..:-)
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posted on
08/05/2012 5:45:29 AM PDT
by
taildragger
(( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
To: Daffynition
Wow, thanks, Brie! But would it have been too much trouble for you to calculate the metrics into ozs for your blog? We’re not Europeans, yet!
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posted on
08/05/2012 5:57:19 AM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(culture, language, borders)
To: Daffynition
I am a Chocoholic! I've probably had chocolate every day for the last 40+ years.
I have also had nonmalignant skin cancer removed from my face.
Don't believe everything you hear!
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posted on
08/05/2012 6:46:33 AM PDT
by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
08/05/2012 9:56:53 AM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
To: Daffynition; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
08/05/2012 4:24:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Daffynition; SunkenCiv
Anyone know what the melting point of cocoa butter is??????
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