Re[2]: Health Benefits of Chocolate - Free Radical Scavengin

["Jim Dunlap" <jim.dunlap@guardian.brooks.af.mil>]

     I believe the toxic dose is 10 pounds/day.


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Subject: RE: Health Benefits of Chocolate - Free Radical Scavenging-
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at guardian
Date:    1/22/99 3:26 PM


At 12:45 PM 1/22/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Please observe that it is not enough to stock the chocolate, but you have
>to observe carefully the expiry dates, which means that you have to
>constantly eat a part of the chocolate and to constantly replace it by
>fresh one.

What we need to know is, what consitutes a therapeutic dose of chocolate?
Is there a risk of overdose? What are the important side effects (other
than the very large obvious one)? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(650) 926-3793
bflood@slac.stanford.edu

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