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Chocolate as Effective as Codeine to Suppress a Cough

Take two M&M's and call me in the morning...

The maker of M&Ms and Mars Bars is in talks with large pharmaceutical companies to develop medications using cocoa flavonoids. Clinical trials have found that cocoa flavanols may help treat diabetes, strokes, vascular disease, and dementia. Mars has already launched CocoaVia, a nutrition bar containing 80 calories and specially preserved flavanols.

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Some information on this site is from the book From Fatigued to Fantastic! Third Edition by Jacob Teitelbaum MD, copyright 2007 by Jacob Teitelbaum MD. Used by permission of Avery Publishing, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.