Studies of the Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate Antioxidants
I love movies with healthy dark chocolate. Probably one of the most popular Woody Allen movies is Sleeper. It really is a classic sci-fi movie in which a health food store owner passes away and his family cryogenically freezes his body in suspended animation. Down the road 200 years, when they find a cure for [...]
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Around three in a thousand US kids under age 18 have diabetes, and heavy children and teens have got the most disappointing probabilities, note Joyce Lee, MD, and colleagues in Diabetes Care. “Among school-aged children, obese children have a greater than twofold chance of having diabetes, compared to children of normal weight,”–Joyce Lee, MD Type [...]
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Here’s a really short post with a link to a webex presentation about chocolate antioxidants. It’s less then seven minutes long and worth checking out. The post is short and boring but the antioxidant presentation is actually very interesting! Here’s the antioxidant link: https://healthychocolate.webex.com/healthychocolate/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=94067237&rKey=ce56ca994433bf70 Good antioxidant information. I really like the background of some of [...]
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Chocolate is good for you Believe it or not, chocolate is very good for your overall heath! After years of being put down, science has finally come around to give chocolate the respect it deserves. Chocolate has been known to contain over 300 chemicals, and has been the subject of a number of studies by [...]
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Pairing chocolate and wine Chocolate matches many different ingredients, and can be eaten in such a wide variety of ways that it would be a life-long commitment to document them all. However, all chocolate fanatics have their own favorites, and one our favorite choices is to pair dark chocolate with wine. To many, this seems [...]
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Cocoa is one of the nutritional elements which can be richest in polyphenols, mainly the ones from the flavonoid category, especially the flavanols category (catechins, epicatechins as well as their oligomers the procanidines), although flavonols such as quercetin along with its glucosides and antocians can be found. Recently experts have revealed that cocoa flavonoids as [...]
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Here’s what studies have shown high flavanoid dark chocolate (cocoa or cacao) can do for some people: May help balance good and bad cholesterol. Contributes to weight loss. Obesity is a contributor to high blood pressure March issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that blood sugar metabolism was significantly improved, as evidenced [...]
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High blood pressure is no joke. It is called the silent killer and it is expensive in many ways, some you may not even have thought about, yet. Some of the main problems that can happen when you have high blood pressure, (if you ignore the symptoms and don’t take steps towards lowering blood pressure), [...]
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How Chocolate Fights Cancer “The great news is that in addition to being decadent and delicious, moderate amounts of dark chocolate may play a role in cancer prevention,” said Sally Scroggs, MS, RD, LD, health education manager at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Cancer Prevention Center. New studies reveals that dark chocolate’s [...]
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