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  • More on Chocolate

    From Wired: Scientists Explain Chocolate Cravings By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — If that craving for chocolate sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in your gut, that’s because maybe it is. A small study links the type of bacteria living in people’s digestive system to a desire for chocolate. Everyone has a vast… Continue reading

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  • Chocolate is Good for Us!

    From BBC News: Chocolate ‘aids fatigue syndrome’ A daily dose of specially- formulated dark chocolate may help cut chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms. Patients in a pilot study found they had less fatigue when eating dark chocolate with a high cocoa content than with white chocolate dyed brown. Researchers from Hull York Medical School said the… Continue reading

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  • Recent CFS/FMS/M.E. Research

    I’ve been absent from here for a long time. My energy — well, energy: what is that? Still, I wanted to report on recent research. I imagine several of you are keeping up with this, but — I haven’t been reading you lately. As usual, a lot on the differences between healthy folk and those… Continue reading

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  • IBS & migraine, depression, fibromyalgia

    From Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The findings from a large study indicate that patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are at increased risk for migraine, depression or fibromyalgia, a chronic condition of fatigue, muscle pain and other symptoms . . . The current study, published in BMC Gastroenterology, involved more than 125,000 subjects… Continue reading

  • Interesting & Mysterious

      From Forbes, of all places (& be warned, popups!): Flexible Joints a Curious Clue to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome SUNDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) — Chronic fatigue syndrome has been accepted as a medical condition for almost 20 years. Once passed off as a series of sometimes ambiguous complaints about pain in the joints and… Continue reading