April 23, 2009
Earlier this week Guru blogged about the devout Christian man who manages a lap dancing club. Normally, that would be a great job for a single young man (if you didn't happen to believe in no sex before marriage).
Now Yours Truly thinks he has found the perfect job for single (or recently unattached) young women: chocolate eaters.
In the name of 'science', researchers in Aberdeen are looking at how compunds in dark chocolate can help fight heart disease. And they have chosen Scotland - the heart disease capital of the world - to conduct their study.
Forty volunteers aged between 18 and 70 will be asked to eat a cocoa-rich dark chocolate specially made for the study, standard chocolate, or white chocolate. The things some people have to do in the name of science...
Now Yours Truly thinks he has found the perfect job for single (or recently unattached) young women: chocolate eaters.
In the name of 'science', researchers in Aberdeen are looking at how compunds in dark chocolate can help fight heart disease. And they have chosen Scotland - the heart disease capital of the world - to conduct their study.
Forty volunteers aged between 18 and 70 will be asked to eat a cocoa-rich dark chocolate specially made for the study, standard chocolate, or white chocolate. The things some people have to do in the name of science...
One of the researchers says: "The standard and white chocolate bars are being used as a control in the study as they will have no benefit on platelets because it is the compounds in cocoa that hold the key.
"But eating a lot of dark chocolate bars is not the answer to protecting against cardiovascular disease because they are high in saturated fat and sugar."
Guru reckons they might have to keep repeating that sentence as the Scottish ladies keep munching their way through bars and bars of the stuff. And God forbid one of them has just split up from their boyfriend...
"But eating a lot of dark chocolate bars is not the answer to protecting against cardiovascular disease because they are high in saturated fat and sugar."
Guru reckons they might have to keep repeating that sentence as the Scottish ladies keep munching their way through bars and bars of the stuff. And God forbid one of them has just split up from their boyfriend...
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