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J. J. Robbins, MD
Hayward, Calif

JAMA. 1970;212(8):1379.

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To the Editor.—

Fulton, Plewig, and Kligman are to be congratulated for finally debunking the long-held teaching that chocolate has any effect on acne vulgaris.¹ Decisive as this well-controlled study is, application of cold reason and basic principles of physiology should long ago have rejected such a relationship. Its rationale is little better than believing that oral ingestion of oil can lubricate arthritic joints.

I would like to suggest a number of other beliefs which have to me for a long time, "tasted like old rubber and chewed like dried out Swiss cheese." I am in hopes that publication may motivate similar controlled studies either to put them to rest or place whatever truth they contain on a scientific basis.

1. That any food has any relationship to pulmonary disease. It has always seemed to me entirely unreasonable to believe that ingestion of eggs should cause allergic reactions in
   

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