chocolate

chocolate

a medium-brown (milk chocolate) coat color of cats seen on the extremities of chocolate-pointed Siamese and Colorpoints and, uncommonly, as a variety of Burmese.

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chocolate

A comestible prepared from ground and roasted beans of the cacao plant, Theobroma cacao, native to South America; it is composed of cocoa butter, a substance high in stearic acid, which is converted in vivo to oleic acid, which may lower cholesterol;¹⁄₃ of cocoa butter is palmitic acid which ↑ cholesterol. See Chocolate craving, Cf Carob Drug slang A regional street term for opium; amphetamine; marijuana.

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Patient discussion about chocolate.

Q. Is chocolate good for you? I heard chocolate is good for you, but how much should I eat?

A. I just bumped into a few nice videos about the topic. check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7v_BdHbdOs&eurl=http://www.imedix.com/health_community/vT7v%5EBdHbdOs_can_chocolate_good?q=Is%20chocolate%20good%20for%20you?&feature=player_embedded

Q. Is it possible to be addicted to chocolate? I love chocolate and eat at least a bar a day. Does this mean I am addicted to it?

A. Here is an article I found about chocolaholics that you might like:
http://www.chocolate.org/addiction.html
and a movie about chocolaholics that might interest you: http://www.5min.com/Video/Chocoholic-on-a-Diet-30427447

Q. What is good about having chocolate and what is bad as I heard it effects to our joints…? Hi, I am a chocolate lover and wanted to know what is good about having chocolate and what is bad as I heard it effects to our joints….?

A. i love chocolate. i especially like dark, concentrated chocolates. so i looked it up to find some medical info about it. i encountered this article in pubmed:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121490920/PDFSTART

i'm not sure you'll have access to it but it generally gives a list of beneficial virtues of chocolate- increase cell survival and such . but all this experiments done on rats and with a great amount of chocolate.