Live Longer with Chocolate
StaffNurse.com has some good news for its patients -- and for us. Chocolate Clue To Longevity tells of a substance in cocoa, epicatechin, may rival penicillin and anaesthesis in its importance to medicine.
Studies of the indigenous Kuna of Panama, central America, show that their annual consumption of natural cocoa is up to 40 cups of cocoa a week -- and natural cocoa has high levels of epicatechin. This may be why the Kuna have low rates of stroke, heart failure, cancer and diabetes, only 10% of that of the Western average.
Sounds like a great prescription to me!