Raw chocolate, that is, as someone on Craigslist suggests as an autism treatment; someone else, the mother of two adopted autistic children, writes about a specific product on an autism board. Why raw chocolate? This site lists a few “health benefits”; apparently raw chocolate is an antioxidant and has an ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) superior to that of prunes, blueberries, strawberries and spinach. I know “the other Orac” (over at Respectful Insolence) has had his hands full fending off anti-vaccine woo-mongers and putting the Post-Modernists in their place, but Orac on ORAC: That could be worth a …read more