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EARTHDATE: April 26, 2009

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REAL LIFE NEWS: CHOCOLATE AND CHEWING GUM

by Hazed

Here's some health stories about confectionary!


No-calorie chocolate taste

Scientists have come up with a way to get all the taste of chocolate, with none of the calories, by using a new inhaler that wafts chocolate-flavored powder into the mouth. It's called Le Whif and it's been invented by a professor at Harvard. Well, a lot of the pleasure from chocolate is the texture in the mouth and the sugar rush when you eat it, which are both presumably missing from this choccy aerosol, so I don't think it would be all that satisfying. Also, I'm not sure about that name... it doesn't sound very appetizing! You might as well call it Le Stench. Get the details here.


Chocolate research volunteers wanted

Here's a study I would just love to be part of. Researchers in Aberdeen want volunteers to take part in a study to see how the compounds in dark chocolate might help fight heart disease. Flavanoids, which are found naturally in cocoa, could fend off disease. The volunteers will be asked to eat a cocoa-rich dark chocolate specially made for the study, standard chocolate, or white chocolate. Yum! More details here.


Chew gum and raise your maths grades

Finally, we move from chocolate to chewing gum, and a new study indicates that students who chewed gum during a maths class did better when tested than those that didn't. They also had better grades at the end of the year. Now, it's worth pointing out the study was sponsored by Wrigley, who make chewing gum, so it may not be entirely unbiased... details here.

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