I just won...

[Beaver]

...$150 worth of Purdy's Chocolates.
[Homer]Mmmmmmmmmm, chocolate [/Homer]

[britney]

whoah -- what kind of tricks do you have to do to get a chocolate sponsorship?

[phUnk]

Originally posted by britney
whoah -- what kind of tricks do you have to do to get a chocolate sponsorship?

Well, I have a couple things I'd like you to try...

[OJ]

Originally posted by britney
whoah -- what kind of tricks do you have to do to get a chocolate sponsorship?

Jumping up and down and shaking your boobs would do it.

[Beaver]

Originally posted by britney
whoah -- what kind of tricks do you have to do to get a chocolate sponsorship?

Come on over and we'll "talk."

[DINMS]

I had a dream I won a Mini cooper full of chocolate and skis. Then I woke up it was 10:00 and the overcast was shinning brightly my window and I wasn't at school. So here I am.

[Viva]

Eat more chocolate! Figures to the text below not included


Nature 424, 1013 (28 August 2003); doi:10.1038/4241013a

Plasma antioxidants from chocolate

Dark chocolate may offer its consumers health benefits the milk variety cannot match.


There is some speculation that dietary flavonoids from chocolate, in particular (-)epicatechin, may promote cardiovascular health as a result of direct antioxidant effects or through antithrombotic mechanisms1-3. Here we show that consumption of plain, dark chocolate (Fig. 1) results in an increase in both the total antioxidant capacity and the (-)epicatechin content of blood plasma, but that these effects are markedly reduced when the chocolate is consumed with milk or if milk is incorporated as milk chocolate. Our findings indicate that milk may interfere with the absorption of antioxidants from chocolate in vivo and may therefore negate the potential health benefits that can be derived from eating moderate amounts of dark chocolate.


To determine the antioxidant content of different chocolate varieties, we took dark chocolate and milk chocolate prepared from the same batch of cocoa beans and defatted them twice with n-hexane before extracting them with a mixture of water, acetone and acetic acid (70.0:29.8:0.2 by volume). We measured their in vitro total antioxidant capacities using the ferric-reducing antioxidant potential (FRAP) assay4; FRAP values were 147.4 4.5 and 78.3 3.4 mol reduced iron per 100 g for dark and milk chocolate, respectively. Volunteers must therefore consume twice as much milk chocolate as dark chocolate to receive a similar intake of antioxidants.

We recruited 12 healthy volunteers (7 women and 5 men with an average age of 32.2 1.0 years (range, 25–35 years). Subjects were non-smokers, had normal blood lipid levels, were taking no drugs or vitamin supplements, and had an average weight of 65.8 3.1 kg (range, 46.0–86.0 kg) and body-mass index of 21.9 0.4 kg m-2 (range, 18.6–23.6 kg m-2). On different days, following a crossover experimental design, subjects consumed 100 g dark chocolate, 100 g dark chocolate with 200 ml full-fat milk, or 200 g milk chocolate (containing the equivalent of up to 40 ml milk).

One hour after subjects had ingested the chocolate, or chocolate and milk, we measured the total antioxidant capacity of their plasma by FRAP assay. Plasma antioxidant levels increased significantly after consumption of dark chocolate alone, from 100 3.5% to 118.4 3.5% (t-test, P < 0.001), returning to baseline values (95.4 3.6%) after 4 h (Fig. 2a). There was no significant change in plasma FRAP values over the same period after ingestion of milk chocolate alone or of dark chocolate with milk (Fig. 2a).


The areas under the curves of (-)epicatechin plasma levels plotted against time5 were measured over the same 4-h period after ingestion for the three different conditions. Absorption of (-)epicatechin into the bloodstream after ingestion of chocolate was significantly less when the chocolate was accompanied by milk (- 46.4 4.1%; analysis of variance (ANOVA), P < 0.001) or if the chocolate itself contained milk (- 69.1 3.9%; ANOVA, P < 0.001; Fig. 2b).

Addition of milk, either during ingestion or in the manufacturing process, therefore inhibits the in vivo antioxidant activity of chocolate and the absorption into the bloodstream of (-)epicatechin. This inhibition could be due to the formation of secondary bonds between chocolate flavonoids and milk proteins6, 7, which would reduce the biological accessibility of the flavonoids and therefore the chocolate's potential antioxidant properties in vivo.

Our findings highlight the possibility that the in vivo antioxidant activity of flavonoids could be impaired by other dietary constituents. Other food combinations may also counteract the absorption and protective effects of flavonoids. There is therefore a need to take into account dietary habits when designing studies to assess the association between flavonoid-rich foods, antioxidant activity and degenerative diseases.


MAURO SERAFINI*, ROSSANA BUGIANESI*, GIUSEPPE MAIANI*, SILVIA VALTUENA*, SIMONE DE SANTIS* & ALAN CROZIER†
* Antioxidant Research Laboratory, Unit of Human Nutrition, National Institute for Food and Nutrition Research, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy
† Plant Products and Human Nutrition Group, Graham Kerr Building, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

e-mail: serafini@inran.it



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Competing financial interests: declared none.





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[13]

Gimme some chocolate and nobody gets hurt.

[britney]

Originally posted by OJ
Jumping up and down and shaking your boobs would do it.

OKAY, folks, I hope this doesnt ruin anyone's Christmas, but I've got some bad news --

that avatar isn't actually "me," it is a "CARTOON," see?

here -- let me demonstrate the striking (and unfortunate) differences:

ME...
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...lazersarah.jpg

My AVATAR >> http://tetongravity.com/forums/images/avatars/at335.gif

ME...
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...party-pic2.JPG

My AVATAR >> http://tetongravity.com/forums/images/avatars/at335.gif

ME (and DJ Sapp and WSD)...
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...0the%20man.jpg

My AVATAR >> http://tetongravity.com/forums/images/avatars/at335.gif

GODIWISHTHISWASME...
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...s/10369/51.jpg

My AVATAR>> http://tetongravity.com/forums/images/avatars/at335.gif

Any questions???

[Beaver]

Originally posted by britney



Any questions???

How you doin'?

[OJ]

Originally posted by britney
OKAY, folks, I hope this doesnt ruin anyone's Christmas, but I've got some bad news --

that avatar isn't actually "me," it is a "CARTOON," see?

here -- let me demonstrate the striking (and unfortunate) differences:

ME...
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...party-pic2.JPG

Heh.

[Tippster]

Originally posted by britney
ME...
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...party-pic2.JPG

I'm speechlessly admiring your wiener-holding technique...

Edit: [whine]Goddammit, OJ!!! I saw her first!!![/whine]

[PlayHarder]

Originally posted by britney



Any questions???

Could you post a short video of YOU jumping and down for comparison?

[Viva]

Originally posted by britney

http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...0the%20man.jpg

Damn it, DJ! Why did you have to go and ruin that beautiful image?

[phUnk]

Originally posted by OJ
Heh.

Watch out for that OJ, he's a real lady-killer.

[truth]

Damn girl...do fries come with dat shake?

[1080Rider]

I'm not complaining, but why do you always wear a blue shirt??? You're really pretty in that blue shirt you know.

[iskibc]

Damn, and all this time I thought Britney was Phunk!

[OJ]

Originally posted by iskibc
Damn, and all this time I thought Britney was Phunk!

ummmmm....phUnky looks good dressed up like a girl. Is this something that happens a lot in Oootah?

[bigtwig00]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by PlayHarder
Could you post a short video of YOU jumping and down for comparison? [/QUOTE




playa knows what hes talkin about

[DINMS]

How 'bout, you and your freind WSD jumping up and down on a short video.

[bigtwig00]

you should also wear the same thing as whats in ur avatar

[Telenater]

Originally posted by Viva
Damn it, DJ! Why did you have to go and ruin that beautiful image?

It could have been worse, it could have been me.

Except I would have thought that the picture was great if it was me between two hot women like that.

[Samwich]

Okay, britney, now listen. You came really, really close here, but you didn't quite make it.

The rules specifically state that you must post a topless picture in order to be accepted. We all did it.

If you want, you can just save time by emailing them to me. I'll post them.

[Blurred Elevens]

Holy Freaking shit!!!

I would'nt have been such an ass here if I knew we were in the company of two hotties!!

Both you girls have a "10" in my book. Going to be in Colorado soon?