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Medical Forum / General / Alternative / June 2008Chocolate DEBUNKED !!!
Bad news for chocolate. Raises heart rate, otherwise nothing. :-( Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Apr;87(4):872-80. A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of the effects of dark chocolate and cocoa on variables associated with neuropsychological functioning and cardiovascular health: clinical findings from a sample of healthy, cognitively intact older adults. Crews WD Jr, Harrison DW, Wright JW. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24506, USA. BACKGROUND: In recent years, there has been increased interest in the potential health- related benefits of antioxidant- and phytochemical-rich dark chocolate and cocoa. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to examine the short-term (6 wk) effects of dark chocolate and cocoa on variables associated with neuropsychological functioning and cardiovascular health in healthy older adults. DESIGN: A double-blind, placebo-controlled, fixed-dose, parallel-group clinical trial was used. Participants (n = 101) were randomly assigned to receive a 37-g dark chocolate bar and 8 ounces (237 mL) of an artificially sweetened cocoa beverage or similar placebo products each day for 6 wk. RESULTS: No significant group (dark chocolate and cocoa or placebo)-by-trial (baseline, midpoint, and end-of-treatment assessments) interactions were found for the neuropsychological, hematological, or blood pressure variables examined. In contrast, the midpoint and end-of-treatment mean pulse rate assessments in the dark chocolate and cocoa group were significantly higher than those at baseline and significantly higher than the midpoint and end-of-treatment rates in the control group. Results of a follow-up questionnaire item on the treatment products that participants believed they had consumed during the trial showed that more than half of the participants in both groups correctly identified the products that they had ingested during the experiment. CONCLUSIONS: This investigation failed to support the predicted beneficial effects of short-term dark chocolate and cocoa consumption on any of the neuropsychological or cardiovascular health-related variables included in this research. Consumption of dark chocolate and cocoa was, however, associated with significantly higher pulse rates at 3- and 6-wk treatment assessments. > Bad news for chocolate. Raises heart rate, > otherwise nothing. :-( [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > associated with significantly higher pulse > rates at 3- and 6-wk treatment assessments. SUPER news for me Mark. I have low blood pressure, so I need a boost. Now where did I put that bucket of 72% chocs? Yum! Yum! > Bad news for chocolate. Raises heart rate, > otherwise nothing. :-( [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > associated with significantly higher pulse > rates at 3- and 6-wk treatment assessments. On Apr 25, 8:24 pm, "trigonometry1...@gmail.com |" <trigonometry1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bad news for chocolate. Raises heart rate, > > otherwise nothing. :-( [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > > associated with significantly higher pulse > > rates at 3- and 6-wk treatment assessments. If only poor ate chocolate, it would either be taxed like tobacco or it would banned and its users put away for 20 years at least in the great State of Texas. Chocolate is a soft drug. Just say No to chocolate. It speeds the pulse. It has weak aphordisiac. It gives a sense of well being. It contains those dangerous Advanced Gylcation Endproducts. It alkaloids speed the death of the bone building cells. It contains white sugar and often milk. It is even known to contain the deadly peanut at times. It is a foodstuff only suitable to college aged Democrats and the Dutch. Obama and McCain distributed chocolates when they were younger in order to influence young women. Were these youthful indiscretions on there parts? Or where they benefiting from exploited workers of the third world. TV network news reporters want to know. During the next election related debate, they will ask this vital question. Perhaps in the future Mark Thorson will ask that chocolate, be made a prescription item. Perhaps he will hope the research will prove it is suitable for use in terminal cancer patients only. And then only after a double blinded cross over study following the patients unto the end life and provided no deaths occur during the study should chocolate products be permitted in the hands of the public by the all knowing US-FDA.. > Obama and McCain distributed chocolates when they > were younger in order to influence young women. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > During the next election related debate, they will > ask this vital question. Laughing out loud! Thats was truly funny! BTW, Texas is not great, Bush is from texas! On Apr 25, 11:50 pm, "trigonometry1...@gmail.com |" <trigonometry1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 25, 8:24 pm, "trigonometry1...@gmail.com |" > [quoted text clipped - 95 lines] > products be permitted in the hands of the public by > the all knowing US-FDA.. > > Obama and McCain distributed chocolates when they > > were younger in order to influence young women. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Laughing out loud! Thats was truly funny! BTW, Texas is not great, > Bush is from texas! I certainly committed enough typos in the riff. My list of chocolate related effects wasn't a parody but of course much of the content was parody and a bit gentle mocking with a number of serious points to be made. Including what I see as the "logic" of of Mark's reasonings. > On Apr 25, 11:50 pm, "trigonometry1...@gmail.com |" > [quoted text clipped - 98 lines] > > products be permitted in the hands of the public by > > the all knowing US-FDA.. > It contains those dangerous Advanced Gylcation Endproducts. I'm afraid you're getting close to a plonking, Trig. How could AGEs get into chocolate?  SignatureMarshall Price of Miami Known to Yahoo as d021317c > trigonometry1...@gmail.com | wrote: > > It contains those dangerous Advanced Gylcation Endproducts. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Marshall Price of Miami > Known to Yahoo as d021317c Sorry, it is a roasted food. This heating pushes sugar into the act of glycation with other food components and products are known Advanced Glycation Endproducts, if memory serves me. I get lazy and use acronyms. I'll happily expand on a topic if a question ask. Provided it doesn't involve too much work. >> trigonometry1...@gmail.com | wrote: >>> It contains those dangerous Advanced Gylcation Endproducts. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I get lazy and use acronyms. I'll happily expand on a topic if a > question ask. Provided it doesn't involve too much work. Sorry about the way I reacted. I think that's the Maillard reaction you're talking about, isn't it? SignatureMarshall Price of Miami Known to Yahoo as d021317c >>> trigonometry1...@gmail.com | wrote: >>>> It contains those dangerous Advanced Gylcation Endproducts. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > I think that's the Maillard reaction you're talking about, isn't it? But who cares if chocolate is good or bad for one's long term health as long as it is tasty. Death is inevitable in this very temporary life so relax and have a nice truffle or other chocolate treat. Have all the regulars gone off on a world chocolate tour or something of like nature? On PBS yesterday there was a great show on chocolate and how the local chocolatiers are helping the growers all over the world to improve their crops by teaching them about making chocolate and giving them equipment so that they can make chocolate and taste what they grow. later bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com) Signaturebobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed, the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning. It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion." --from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste. > On PBS yesterday there was a great show on chocolate and how the > local chocolatiers are helping the growers all over the world to improve > their crops by teaching them about making chocolate and giving them > equipment so that they can make chocolate and taste what they grow. That was the show with Dave Guittard on it? I think that may have been a local KQED-FM show, not a national PRI show. > >> On PBS yesterday there was a great show on chocolate and how the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > not a national PRI show. > It may have been local, certes the Guittard family is quite local. I had to leave on other business before the show was over. later bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com) Signaturebobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed, the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning. It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion." --from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste. >>>> trigonometry1...@gmail.com | wrote: >>>>> It contains those dangerous Advanced Gylcation Endproducts. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > later > bliss -- C O C O A Powered... (at california dot com) I'm posting in sci.med.nutrition. We discuss nutrition here, and we're all very interested in what's "good or bad for one's long term health." There's more to life than "treats," IMHO. SignatureMarshall Price of Miami Known to Yahoo as d021317c >>>>> trigonometry1...@gmail.com | wrote: >>>>>> It contains those dangerous Advanced Gylcation Endproducts. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > we're all very interested in what's "good or bad for one's long term > health." There's more to life than "treats," IMHO. Certainly there is more to life than treats but broccoli is very nice when prepared properly. Besides the treats and the food that is simply good for you or necessary there are lots of pain and eventually death. And when you get old enough you realize that none of these are bad. Lots of people in the world are living on a diet so bad it is no wonder they cannot think straight about the issues affecting their lives and strike out at others who are so well off that they can think about the illusory issue of long term health. I say illusory because all you can do if you are lucky with a good genetic heritage and careful in your activities is stay healthy for one human life time. There is no evidence that this will help the real problems people face every day. It might do better to think about spreading the food to the people who are not getting enough nutrition and about production of food that is sustainable in terms of the life of the earth. Thank whatever for the cocao bean and chocolate. later bliss - cocao powered Signaturebobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco Ningen banji Human beings do Samazama no Every single kind Baka a suru Of stupid thing --- 117th edition of Haifu Yanagidaru published in 1832 Its good for you, thens its NOT good for you! Heck, a little bit wont do anyone harm! > Bad news for chocolate. Raises heart rate, > otherwise nothing. :-( [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > associated with significantly higher pulse > rates at 3- and 6-wk treatment assessments. |
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