{"id":777,"date":"2006-02-28T21:41:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/02\/28\/sweet-dark-love-saves-lives\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T21:41:14","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T01:41:14","slug":"sweet-dark-love-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/28\/sweet-dark-love-saves-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Dark Love Saves Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8065'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"374\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/chocolate4everybody.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" align=\"left\">The Dutch have a long history with chocolate. Although native Mexicans<br \/>\n        and their Spanish conquerors first used the bitter bean&#8211;and reported<br \/>\n        on its tonic powers&#8211;a Dutchman was the first to extract modern cocoa<br \/>\n        and neutralize its bitterness with alkali. The modern chocolate bar was<br \/>\n        born. Now, results from a study of aging Dutch men have shown that cocoa<br \/>\n        consumers were half as likely to die from disease than those who did<br \/>\n        not eat the sweet treat.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&amp;articleID=000D0AA3-40AA-1403-80AA83414B7F0000\">Scientific America<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Quick, before they change their minds, pass the Rocky Road Double Chocolate<br \/>\n        Mousse&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch have a long history with chocolate. Although native Mexicans and their Spanish conquerors first used the bitter bean&#8211;and reported on its tonic powers&#8211;a Dutchman was the first to extract modern cocoa and neutralize its bitterness with alkali. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/28\/sweet-dark-love-saves-lives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}