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Is chocolate good for you?
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Is chocolate good for you?
Researchers try to find out if there are beneficial as well as
harmful effects
By LAURIE TARKAN
New York Times
Monday, November 13, 2000
Will chocolate be as intensely craved and taste as richly luscious
if it is no longer viewed as a sinful treat, but, quite the contrary,
a health food?
Indeed, chocolate and cocoa drinks, it turns out, contain an
abundant dose of flavonoids, potent antioxidants that have been found
most nota...
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