If you're a competent researcher and you spent an hour Googling the health benefits of chocolate, you'd come up with all of the key ideas and basic information presented by BÃ©liveau and Gingras in their chocolate chapter. 1  For example:
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis that causes lower back pain and stiffness. Back pain from AS is not the same as more common types of back pain caused by things such as muscle spasms or slipped discs. AS back pain is caused by inflammation. Itâs chronic, which means it is not a onetime thing.
complementary medicine (complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)) a large and diverse set of systems of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention based on philosophies and techniques other than those used in conventional Western medicine, often derived from traditions of medical practice used in other, non-Western cultures.