HOME / Medical Examiner : Health and medicine explained. Your Health This Week Is chocolate bad for the bones? And more. By Sydney Spiesel|Posted Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008, at 12:12 PM Tweet Tweet MYSLATE Save this story. Follow all Medical Examiner articles. Follow the Health and Science section. Follow stories by Sydney Spiesel. MySlate is a new tool that lets you track your favorite parts of Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. SLATE'S MOST VIRAL “Stink Onions,” “Heart’s Farm,” “Place to Find Gold”: Literal Names of U.S. Places, Mapped Why Don’t Cops Believe Rape Victims? Brain Science Explains. Wu-Tang’s GZA Teaches Kids Science With Least-Lame Classroom Rap Ever Sydney Spiesel is a pediatrician in Woodbridge, Conn., and clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale University's School of Medicine. Photograph of chocolate by John Foxx/Stockbyte. Click here to load comments.