[Aunt Clara]

Quote:

Chocolate addiction leads to sweet discovery - Yahoo! News It turns out chocolate, like aspirin, affects the platelets that cause blood to clot, Diane Becker of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine and her colleagues discovered. "What these chocolate offenders taught us is that the chemical in cocoa beans has a biochemical effect similar to aspirin in reducing platelet clumping, which can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, causing a heart attack," Becker said in a telephone interview.

Sweet! Now I have a medical excuse to eat chocolate. Like I needed one.

[Veevee]

I'd like to see my HMO cover that!

[Aunt Clara]

At the very moment a company starts covering chocolate "for therapeutic reasons" I'll dump my current insurer.

[SenoraLey]

I swear I truly believe chocolate improves the mood. If I'm at work and feel like I'm going to fall asleep, I eat a piece of chocolate and I feel suddenly like doing that "York Peppermint Patty" thing and standing on my chair at work. LOL

[hunkabunny]

I too believe that chocolate improves the mood. A year ago I moved to California from N.Y. for the first few months that I lived here, I was feeling a little down, I noticed that when I ate chocolate covered cherries I felt so much better.