On Senior Citizens Day today, the writer remembers her late parents and their wisdom, and ponders her role to the younger generation.
But is it true that things were the exact opposite around 500 years ago when chocolates were prescribed by health practitioners, not as bribes for the kids, but as a prescription?For as long as chocolate has existed, people have believed in its medicinal benefits. Chocolates have been used in medicine since at least the 1500s.
The Aztecs used cacao to mask the unsavoury flavours of other medicinal ingredients used to make various potions to treat fever, blood in the urine, skin rashes, fever and seizures. In 1796, one scholar argued that chocolate could delay the growth of white hair. In 1864, Auguste Debay described a chocolate concoction used to treat syphilis.
As for the nutritional content of cacao itself, studies suggested that the flavonoid compounds in unprocessed dark chocolate may reduce risks from clogged arteries and increase blood circulation.
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