Wednesday, 20 December 2006

Chocolate On Prescription?

Yesterday, there was a small article in the Herald on the possible benefits of (specially formulated) chocolate for ME sufferers, because of polyphenol flavonoids. Next thing, they'll be prescribing us Galaxy. Personally, I am sightly cynical about the efficaciousness of chocolate, but it sure beats the idiocy of the NICE scoundrels . . . It really is bizarre (as well as wearying and enraging) to have an illness about which there are so many conflicting opinions and proposals.

3 comments:

S. Kearney said...

Chocolate or no chocolate, I'm addicted to your posts! There is something profound and sad but also something very pleasurable in your observations of your life.

nmj said...

Hey Shameless, Glad you enjoying posts - what more can you ask for than that someone is addicted to your words!

darren said...

I once wrote out a list of all the 'remedies' I'd been prescribed. It was over a page long.(Have you ever heard of Bovine spleen?) All I can say is the medical profession is full of quacks and charlatans. But I've never tried medicinal chocolate...