The requirements, eat a bar of chocolate daily for a year and a half. The alleged goal is to determine if flavonoids found in chocolate will reduce the risk of heart disease in menopausal women with type 2 diabetes. Oh, for those of you who want to peruse the article read it here .

However, you may not want to rush to sign up. Eating anything every day for a year and a half will tend to unbalance your health. This is because all food has energetic properties. Part of the premise for the study is to see how to isolate “healthy” components of chocolate so that those in the business of selling chocolate can promote it as a health food and charge more for it’s…benefits.

If you want to learn more about chocolate read the homeopathic literature, the materia medica of chocolate. It is fascinating. Chocolate also contains complex alkaloids, sugar and fat. Theobromine is also being ingested daily, a component of chocolate. Taken in excess symptoms such as nervousness, insomnia, poor sleep, certain types of heart disease, intestinal problems and moodiness may result. Chocolate can also inhibit calcium absorption. And the participants are to be women with type 2 diabetes. What is going on here?

Chocolate has a high magnesium content. Research suggests that a chocolate craving may result from a deficiency of this essential nutrient. However, chocolate is often not available in a healthy form to use it as a nutritional source (e.g. refined sugar and milk). If what your body is really craving is magnesium, eat unprocessed fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

The bottom line. If you have a sweet tooth and want chocolate, eat it with pure gusto, eat it in moderation. Eating it everyday for a year and half a half, my vote is, Thumbs down.