Flowers, a card and....

[RICHARD]

Camel milk chocolates

An Austrian chocolate maker has joined forces with an Arabic camel farm to create a new delicacy - camel milk chocolates.

Vienna-based Chocolatier Hochleitner took six months to develop the treats using milk from the Al Ain Camel Farm and Dairy in the UAE.

Company head Johann Georg Hochleitner said camel's milk was a good alternative to cow's milk because it was lower in fat and sweeter.

"We have combined camel's milk from the farm in Al Ain with honey from Yemen and have developed a healthy and delicious new type of chocolate," said Hochleitner.

The first samples were made in Vienna although the partners plan to build a production plant in the UAE and will invest in another 2,000 camels.

The proposed manufacturing plant is expected to come into production in June 2006, and will have a capacity of 50 tons of camel chocolate per month.

Hochleitner and and his Arabic partners plan to target wealthy customers staying in luxury hotels in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

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If you share these chocolates with your significant other, will it guarantee you get a hump???

[Pit Chick]

Originally posted by RICHARD
If you share these chocolates with your significant other, will it guarantee you get a hump???

Maybe even 2 and if you both eat them that could be 4.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Pit Chick
Maybe even 2 and if you both eat them that could be 4.

That's why a Dromedary won't do!!!

[ramanth]

Actually, I learned via 'Animal Planet' that camel milk is actually lower in fat than cows milk.

They talked to a guy that owns and milks camels here in the states, but I can't remember what state he resided.

I'd be willing to give it a go!

Especially since moo juice aggravates my Endo.

[Pit Chick]

Originally posted by ramanth
Especially since moo juice aggravates my Endo.

OMG, I thought my mom was the only person who called it "moo juice".

[QueenScoopalot]

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Originally posted by RICHARD
If you share these chocolates with your significant other, will it guarantee you get a hump???
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Is this how chocolate ended up in the Doghouse RICHARD?
I thought this article was interesting seeing as we're now talking camels! Now you can eat copious amounts of camel chocolate, and not develop diabetes!

Diabetes secret in camel milk?

Guardians of the camel may hold key to diabetes

As India braces to be diabetes epicentre by 2035, ICMR launches two studies to
find out what protects Rajasthani tribe from disease

Sunday, March 13, 2005
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_st...ntent_id=66380


NEW DELHI, MARCH 12: A community of camel breeders tucked away in Rajasthan
could hold the key to one of medical science's great quests: combating
diabetes.

The Raikas, a nomadic tribe, may have stood out till now for their flashy
turbans and striking bracelets, but population studies have thrown up a
remarkable new fact. Not a single case of diabetes has ever been reported in
the tribe.

Even as India braces itself to become the epicentre for diabetes by 2025, the
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has commissioned two massive studies
to find out what protects the Raikas from the disease.

The decision was taken after data collected from ICMR's regional centre in
Jodhpur, the Desert Medicine Research Centre, confirmed the Raika phenomenon.
Unlike villages with different tribal populations, the Raikas had no case of
diabetes and showed amazing tolerance to glucose, said Dr N K Ganguly,
Director General, ICMR.

''While studies reveal no case of diabetes has ever been reported in the tribe
the reasons are still unknown,'' said Dr Ganguly, adding, ''ICMR will try to
find out the reason.''

ICMR has decided to pursue two separate lines of inquiry: the first will try
to determine whether some gene gives the Raikas immunity from diabetes.
''Maybe there is a gene in their body that is protective in nature,'' said Dr
Ganguly.

The second study will examine the role of camel milk. ''The only way in which
the Raikas are different from the rest of us is that they still drink camel
milk,'' said Dr Ganguly.

In fact, Raikas are known in Rajasthan as ''guardians of the camel'', even
having been entrusted with the maharajahs' herds. They are also said to have
never sold a female camel outside their community and frown on selling camel
milk, saying it's like ''selling a son''.

The Raikas, who live in the hills as well as desert areas of Mewar, Godhwar,
Malva, Mewar, are a nomadic people who travel continuously with herds of sheep
and camels. Raika men from the hills stand out with their large, red turbans
while the women wear colorful clothes and antique ivory bracelets.

Even previous studies have pointed to the protective effect of camel milk -
though this time ICMR has a clear lead to follow.

A small, month-long study of people with Type 1 diabetes in Britain (which has
not been formally published) has already suggested that drinking almost a pint
of camel milk daily improved blood glucose levels, reducing the need for
insulin.

Camel milk does seem to contain an insulin-like protein, which appears capable
of passing through the stomach without being destroyed. The stomach's acidity
would normally destroy insulin-which is why developing 'oral insulin' is such
a challenge.

''Camel milk is not just about milk proteins there are many other ingredients
in it. We have to look at the specifics,'' said Dr Ganguly.

[moosmom]

moo juice

[ramanth]

Donna and Pit Chick... LOL!!! I'm just full of surprise.