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Chocolate is bad for you! It will make your teeth rot!Chocolate is good for you! It has natural compounds that benefit the heart and the brain!
With all the back and forth, it's about time for chocolate to be bad for us again. According to a new study out of the University of Western Australia, women who eat chocolate every day end up with lower bone density in the hips, neck, tibia, and heel, making them more prone to fracture.
Chocolate seems to affect the body's ability to hold onto calcium. Chocolate contains oxalate, a poisonous acid, which can reduce the calcium absorption; it also contains sugar, which has been linked to calcium excretion.
Maybe this means we should stop eating that nasty extra dark "healthy" chocolate and go back to "milk" chocolate. Milk has calcium, right?
Or maybe we shouldn't eat chocolate every day.
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2-11-2008 @4:06PM simpleabundance03 said... What if you knew there was a chocolate that not only tastes Incredible but more Importantly is Extremely Healthy?
Did you know Healthy Chocolate is:
1) Good for your heart
2) Is natures Perfect Anti-aging Food
3) Helps Control Appetite and Aids in Weight Loss
4) Contains more Antioxidants than any other food in the Typical American Diet!
Everyone in the World Loves Chocolate, Learn More: www.successnevertastedsosweet.com or www.makemillionsinchocolate.com
Sweet Dreams, Charmaine
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2-11-2008 @4:18PM moneyman176 said... WHEN U R READING THIS DONT STOP OR SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN MY NAME IS SUMMER I AM 15 YEARS OLD i have BLONDE HAIR , SCARS no NOSE OR EARS I AM DEAD IF U DONT COPY THIS JUS LIKE FROM THE RING COPY N POST THIS ON 5 MORE SITES OR I WILL APPEAR ONE CREEPY NIGHT WEN UR NOT ExPECTING IT BY YOUR BED WITH A NIFE AND KILL U THIS IS NO JOKE
idk
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2-11-2008 @4:21PM Paige said... Ha ha, that sucks. But then... why do they make those chocolate square things "rich in calcium". Even so, dark chocolate RULES. hands down.
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2-11-2008 @4:31PM heather said... chocolate does contain sugar which might be linked to calcium excretion..... but then again a lot of things contain some form of sugar...
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2-11-2008 @6:01PM Abby said... i don't like chocolate anyway
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2-11-2008 @6:08PM Taylor said... I saw an episode of C.S.I. where this really old gambler died while playing poker or something, and everyone thought it was murder. Then this guy that did some kind of test on the guy found out he died of lead poisoning - from chocolate! this gambler had this suspicion that he would not win unless he ate a (1 lb.) bag of chocolate during the game, and he played every night for 16 years. What happened was that the leaded gas from the car got into the air near the chocolate plantations, which was abosrbed into the cacao beans, and not removed while making chocolate. Lesson Learned: do not eat one lb. of chocolate every night for sixteen years, or you will die of lead poisoning.
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2-17-2008 @11:52AM SirPrizeMe said... Who cares!? It tastes good.
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2-11-2008 @6:48PM aj said... frankly i think that pikachu should be prez he would put cola in all the fountins..
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2-11-2008 @6:55PM ashley said... WWWWUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT........I CANT BREATHHH!!!! LAMO LAMO LAMO LAMO!
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2-11-2008 @7:08PM guiterboycon said... chocolate is my best friend no matter what!!
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2-11-2008 @7:42PM Eva said... Well I love all kinds of chocolate and i now this will sound to terible to you other chocolate lovers.... but..... chocolate is bad for us..... sorry sorry!!! but girls come on really... do u really want a bunch of pimples and zits and yucky things all over ur face.... its actually the same with guys... i mena you can have chocolate but not an accsesive amounts of it everyday... thats disgusting and unhealthy and gross..... yea... i am ganna go now... byeee
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2-11-2008 @7:59PM john said... to the person who wrote this article, could you be any more wishy washy? you havent even concluded whether chocolate was good or bad for you. you need to be stronger in your writing so that people can actually get some useful information from it.
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2-28-2008 @9:24PM Anonymous said... This pretty much means that chocolate, especially dark chocolate, is good for you, but only in moderation. You can't expect all that sugar and fat not to show up if you eat it every day. It's got to go somewhere, and often, it goes to your midsection, or thighs.
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2-11-2008 @8:08PM sarah said... John - Sarah J. Gim here, the "person who wrote this article." Because it's not an opinion, I don't feel the need to take any sort of stance about whether chocolate is good or bad for a person. It is purely to convey information to you. In fact, with something like chocolate where there are both benefits and harmful effects, I wouldn't even WANT to suggest to anyone that it's absolutely good or absolutely bad. I leave those kinds of conclusions to the scientists.
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2-11-2008 @8:09PM sarah said... John - By the way, if you want something more conclusive about chocolate, then I will say that I DO LIKE CHOCOLATE.
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2-11-2008 @8:13PM Lola said... CHOCOLATE IS GOOD AND BAD!!! JUST DON'T EAT IT EVERYDAY AND THEN UR TEETH WONT ROT. BUT EAT IT BECUZ ITS AWESOME AND BILLY SINDERSIN IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOT!!!
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2-11-2008 @8:30PM J.D said... Chocolate is good for you!! it refreshes your body and its good with the ladies if you know what i mean.
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2-11-2008 @11:13PM CRiSTi said... YALL DONT KNOW HOW TO SPELL FO SHiT!!!
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2-18-2008 @8:04AM scuba steve said... um would it be bad if you mixed creatine with chocolate?
j/w
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