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[Michael F. Gunter]

    Not even remotely period, but this chocoholic is feeling so smug she 
decided to share.......... ;-)

                    Ldy Diana

Good News for Chocolate Lovers 

Reuters

LONDON (Aug. 5) - Feeling guilty about that chocolate snack? Don't! 
Researchers Friday confirmed what the industry has said for years -- 
chocolate is a good source of the kind of antioxidants found in tea.

A study by Dutch doctors analyzed chocolate to quantify the amount of 
catechins, from the family of flavonoids.

Flavonoids are among the most powerful antioxidants -- compounds that protect 
against chemicals in the body called free radicals that damage cells.

Some scientists have said that because of the flavonoids in tea, drinking one 
or more cups a day can reduce the risk of having a heart attack.

''Drinking a cup of tea and eating a chocolate cookie might be not only 
enjoyable but healthy as well,'' the doctors wrote in the Lancet medical 
journal.

The study was carried out by doctors from the Department of Chronic Diseases 
and Epidemiology at the National Institute of Public Health and Environment 
in Bilthoven with the support of the European Union Commission.

''The antioxidant content of chocolate is four times that of tea,'' they 
wrote in the Lancet.

They found that chocolate contributed 20 percent of the catechin intake in a 
sample of the Dutch population while tea contributed 55 percent.

And for real chocolate connoisseurs, the researchers looked into which 
chocolate was better -- dark or milk chocolate.

Dark chocolate had the highest catechin content, milk chocolate had less, but 
both had more than black tea, they said.

The doctors surveyed 6,250 men and women in the Netherlands.

REUTERS  Reut11:22 08-05-99

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