Re: Chocolate DEBUNKED !!!

bobbie sellers wrote:
> Marshall Price wrote:
>> trigonometry1972@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 | wrote:
>>> On May 3, 5:08 pm, Marshall Price <d0213...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> trigonometry1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 | wrote:
>>>>> It contains those dangerous Advanced Gylcation Endproducts.
>>>>    I'm afraid you're getting close to a plonking, Trig.  How could
AGEs
>>>> get into chocolate?
>>> Sorry, it is a roasted food. This heating pushes sugar into the act
>>> of glycation with other food components and
>>> products are known Advanced Glycation Endproducts,
>>> if memory serves me.
>>>
>>> I get lazy and use acronyms. I'll happily expand on a topic if a
>>> question ask. Provided it doesn't involve too much work.
>>   Sorry about the way I reacted.
>>
>>   I think that's the Maillard reaction you're talking about, isn't it?
>>
>     But who cares if chocolate is good or bad for one's long term
> health as long as it is tasty.  Death is inevitable in this very
tem****ary
> life so relax and have a nice truffle or other chocolate treat. 
> 
>     Have all the regulars gone off on a world chocolate tour or
something
> of like nature?
> 
>     On PBS yesterday there was a great show on chocolate and how the
> local chocolatiers are helping the growers all over the world to improve
> their crops by teaching them about making chocolate and giving them
> equipment so that they can make chocolate and taste what they grow.
> 
> 	later
> 	bliss -- C  O C O A  Powered... (at california dot com)
> 

   I'm posting in sci.med.nutrition.  We discuss nutrition here, and 
we're all very interested in what's "good or bad for one's long term 
health."  There's more to life than "treats," IMHO.

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Marshall Price of Miami
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