Cocoa plot

Monday 22 November 2004 20:00 EST

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Would you believe it. Just as the troubles in the Ivory Coast act to cut off shipments from the world's largest producer of cocoa, along comes a study by Imperial College London to say a derivative found in the foodstuff could be the answer to persistent coughs.

It's enough to make you smell a plot. The government of the Ivory Coast putting up the price of the commodity as peace talks start. Or, perhaps, just the medical profession at it again: offering the Bridget Joneses of this world a medical reason to justify their love of chocolate while depriving them of the means to indulge it.

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