Re: OT Mars to make diabetes drug out of cocoa.
- From: oasysco <fuddruckers@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:18:55 GMT
"Zootwoman" <zootwoman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1122355692.435773.44160
@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
> Hey Miles, you get chocolate!!!!!! Cooolll.
When I read this article on MSNBC.com yesterday, I ran upstairs and
bought a Snickers bar, for my health mind you. I felt much better and my
blood sugar just felt right - for about 3 minutes anyway.
Greg
>
>
> Updated: 1:42 p.m. ET July 25, 2005
> LONDON - Mars, the company that made its fortune satisfying chocolate
> cravings, unveiled plans on Monday to develop medications that use a
> component of cocoa to help treat diabetes, strokes and vascular
> disease.
>
> The privately held U.S. company that produces M&Ms and Mars bars said
> it hoped to make medications based on flavanols - plant chemicals
> with health benefits found in cocoa, as well as red wine and green
tea.
>
> Mars said it is in talks with large pharmaceutical companies for a
> licensing or joint venture agreement to reproduce the compounds in
> cocoa shown to improve blood flow.
>
> "The mounting scientific evidence is extraordinary," said Dr. Norm
> Hollenberg, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, which has
> collaborated with Mars on cocoa research.
>
> "This is a scientific breakthrough that could well lead to a medical
> breakthrough."
>
> Hollenberg was chairing a two-day seminar with 20 science and medical
> experts in Switzerland to discuss the newest research on cocoa's
> potential health benefits.
>
> The specific cocoa flavanol molecules responsible for a blood-thinning
> aspirin-like effect have been identified for the first time, Mars
said.
>
> Two clinical trials have also found that cocoa flavanols can boost the
> flow of blood to key areas of the brain, raising the possibility of
> treatments for dementia and strokes.
>
> A new clinical study has shown flavanols' ability to improve
> synthesis of nitric oxide by blood vessels could aid treatment of
> vascular complications associated with long-term diabetes.
>
> Mars has already launched CocoaVia, a nutrition bar containing 80
> calories and specially preserved flavanols, which usually get
destroyed
> in cocoa processing.
>
> The chocolate industry had to rid its products of a junk food image
and
> highlight cocoa's healthier qualities to encourage demand for a
> produce mainly grown by poor African farmers, industry experts said at
> a conference in Malaysia last week.
>
>
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