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| Chocolate and ME in 'Pulse' medical magazine |
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Eating a daily dose of dark chocolate can help ease symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, report the Daily Mail and BBC News online. The sourceA small study of 10 people with chronic fatigue syndrome by researchers in Hull found that people scored better on fatigue scores when they ate 45g of high-cocoa content dark chocolate a day for two months than 45g of white chocolate dyed brown. Patients were crossed over to the other treatment after a month break in the study (originally presented at a conference in 2005). Expert view Dr Charles Shepherd, medical advisor to the ME Association said chocolate was no CSF/ME cure and the study should be viewed with caution because of its size but there were several ingredients in dark chocolate which could in theory have an effect. 'From a practical point of view there shouldn’t be any harm in people with ME/CFS taking a small amount of dark chocolate each day to see if it helps - provided chocolate doesn't exacerbate pre-existing medical problems such migraine. 'However, I would not advise people to start eating large quantities of dark chocolate' |
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