Can you imagine doctors and nurses carrying chocolate around in the hospital or selling chocolate bars in the Pharmacy? Could that be possible? Recent research has found out that all of the disadvantages that we commonly know about the affects of chocolate to our health have been false. People say that eating chocolate causes tooth decay and acne. Some Micronesian parents don't give chocolate to their kids because they think that it causes tooth decay and acne, but recent research tells us that those things are not true. In fact, chocolate is good medicine for the world's most deadly diseases like heart disease and cancer.                                                                  

   Centuries before the modern world got into the act, there were two groups of people that treasured cacao beans, now are called cocoa, for the ingredient for their special drink and for trade. As for the Mayans, they drank cacao as local medicine and only the royal family reserved the right to drink the cacao drink. Chocolate was first brought to Europe by navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus after he'd visited the Mayans. After Columbus, another explorer, Spain's Hernando Cortez brought cacao and recipes for it back to Spain after his journey to Mexico. As the years went by, people from the 19th and the 20th century turned chocolate, originally a bitter, hot drink made with red peppers, into a tasty and delicious beverage called cocoa and into thousands of different types of treats called candy.

    Latest scientific research has shown that chocolate is a healthy food and no longer should be considered an evil luxury. In recent studies, scientists also found out that pure chocolate has "flavenoids," plant chemicals that helps prevent heart attacks and cancer. There's also a kind of fat in chocolate, which is called stearic acid, which is a  fat that doesn't raise cholesterol if eaten moderately. Most chocolate is a healthy food, therefore it's better if we add chocolate to  our meals. If chocolate could  be considered a medicine, chemists and physicians could do something to convert bad tasting medicines into chocolate bars or  into chocolate tablets or capsules and could  offer this to patients in the  hospital. Taking medicine might not be so bad after all!

    So eating chocolate is not a bad idea; it helps protect your organs, like the lungs and other organs in the body from cancer. All the bad things about chocolate that were commonly thought are now found to be false statements, because scientists have found out Chocolate protects your body from cancer and heart disease. So, researchers with the help of the government, should come up with the solution of mixing chocolate with other chemicals or substances to create a medicine for cancer and heart patients that tastes good, and could be provided for patients in hospitals and at the pharmacies. And we can start enjoying chocolate again even more!

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