chocolate good for you!
Dec. 18th, 2007 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensApparently chocolate is good for colds.
Perhaps most surprisingly, chocolate even works effectively as a cough remedy. Scientists at Imperial College London discovered that theobromine, one of the stimulants in chocolate, is a third more effective in stopping persistent coughs than codeine, the medicine most commonly used. The theobromine suppresses the nerve activity that causes coughing, and it is thought that the viscous quality of melted chocolate could help soothe tickly coughs. -- http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3260693.ece
I don't have a cold yet, but I really feel that I should test this. And if I don't come down with a cold afterwards, then I'm sure that proves something.
(Such as the fact that I like chocolate.)
Perhaps most surprisingly, chocolate even works effectively as a cough remedy. Scientists at Imperial College London discovered that theobromine, one of the stimulants in chocolate, is a third more effective in stopping persistent coughs than codeine, the medicine most commonly used. The theobromine suppresses the nerve activity that causes coughing, and it is thought that the viscous quality of melted chocolate could help soothe tickly coughs. -- http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3260693.ece
I don't have a cold yet, but I really feel that I should test this. And if I don't come down with a cold afterwards, then I'm sure that proves something.
(Such as the fact that I like chocolate.)
