Eat Chocolate, Kill Cancer

This is just too cool.

In addition to the psychological benefits of eating a bit of chocolate, researchers at Georgetown have now found compounds in chocolate shut down cancerous cell division.

The physiological properties of theobromine, the primary alkaloid in cocoa beans, are well-known. Hopefully we’ll be able to add procyanidin to that list.

(via ScienceDaily)

posted by Chris on 18 April 2005 at 0110 in sci-tech

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