I like the way these people think...

I rarely agree with anything that comes out of the Guardian. However, this one's a keeper in MY book:

Chocolate as cough remedy

It tastes better than cough medicine, and now researchers think it may be better at relieving coughs, too.

Dark chocolate may have health benefits to weigh against fears of tooth decay or putting on weight.

A chemical compound, theobromine, which is found in cocoa, has proved more effective at stopping persistent coughing than codeine.

Tests have so far involved only 10 people and larger studies are needed, according to a team from Imperial College and the Royal Brompton and St Bartholomew's hospitals in London and a Hungarian company. They described their work in an online journal published by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

Doses used in the tests were equivalent to a 50g bar of dark chocolate, but the researchers said bigger doses might be more effective.

Yes! Yes! Bigger doses!