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Hypertension Helped by Cocoa |
| 7/31/2010 3:49:01 PM |
Cocoa for hypertension
Delectable news: Consumed daily for at least 2 weeks,cocoa (the darker the better) can reduce blood pressure among people with severe hypertension. Researchers say cocoa plant flavanols, called epicatechins, improve blood vessel function by helping artery walls relax. Most research shows the effects to be modest but still... Read More |
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Home on the range - free radicals and weight loss |
| 6/23/2010 11:04:10 AM |
Here's a good article on free radicals:
http://dark-chocolate-diet.com/chocolate-weight-loss/free-radicals-and-weight-loss/
It covers how free radicals and weight loss are connected. If you've had trouble keeping weight off or losing it in the first place, it may not be your fault. You probably didn't know the connection between the two. No wonder... Read More |
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Brain Protected By Cold Pressed Dark Chocolate |
| 5/5/2010 10:20:16 PM |
Dark Chocolate May Guard Against Brain Injury from Stroke Science Daily reported May 5, 2010 that Researchers at Johns Hopkins discovered a compound in dark chocolate may protect the brain after a stroke by increasing cellular signals already known to shield nerve cells from damage.
The study involved feeding mice epicatechins (a compound found... Read More |
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Chocolate and Weight Loss |
| 4/6/2010 11:04:13 AM |
 Good News! Research is showing that healthy dark chocolate is not only good for you but may help with food cravings.
Researchers found that after eating dark chocolate (as compared with milk chocolate) subjects ate 15% less of foods such as pizza. We've been saying for some time that you should try to eat the healthy dark chocolate several times a... Read More |
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Some great dark chocolate news from Dr. Al Sears |
| 3/8/2010 11:27:48 AM |
| Al Sears, MD
11903 Southern Blvd., Ste. 208
Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 | | Dear Pam,
If you ate chocolate on Valentine’s Day, I have some news for you. You don’t have to feel guilty. In fact, I have evidence that you may have cut your risk from dying of a stroke nearly in half. Two studies give us... Read More |
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Chocolate and heart health |
| 3/1/2010 2:07:06 PM |
| Here's another article I found on dark chocolate and heart health. Seems like there is more news and studies and articles everyday about cardiovascular health and dark chocolate. I don't know about you, but if I was having heart problems, or knew someone who had any cardiovascular problems and I was concerned about them, I'd be checking it out. And... Read More |
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A Dark Chocolate Lovers' Party |
| 2/22/2010 1:06:18 AM |
 Your Very Own Dark Chocolate Festival
Salon Du Chocolat, Chocolate Lovers' Festival, Eurochocolate, Chocolate Rush, Garfield Park Chocolate Show, Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival, these are just some of the best chocolate festivals celebrated all over the world. And they are usually attended by hundreds of thousands of chocolate lovers like me.... Read More |
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Chocolate, Cabernet and Cancer |
| 2/14/2010 12:15:24 PM |
Study says Cabernet and Chocolate can kill cancer.
Joining foods that are ingredients to starve cancer, by choking off the blood supply to tumors, are red wine and dark chocolate. The Angiogenesis Foundation from Massachusetts announced at the TED conference that they had been rating foods based on cancer fighting qualities and dark chocolate and... Read More |
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What does Alkalized and Cold Processed Dark Chocolate mean |
| 2/4/2010 4:52:02 PM |
 Dark chocolate is any chocolate that has a high percent of cocoa solids - it's different for every country for what is legally considered a high percent, but generally 70% or higher is considered dark chocolate.
One of the processes that takes away nutrients from the raw cocoa (or cacao) while it is being processed to make dark chocolate, is... Read More |
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Eat Dark Chocolate for Breakfast |
| 1/26/2010 4:13:23 PM |
 Chocolate has long been held to be a mood-lifter.
It boosts levels of serotonin, the brain’s antidepressant, as well as endorphins, the feel-good chemicals released after exercise. We also know it's a source of theobromine, a stimulant that has a lasting relaxing effect.
But now there’s evidence to suggest that dark chocolate is less fattening... Read More |
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Dark Chocolate and Fibromyalgia |
| 1/24/2010 2:00:19 PM |
 It's been said that 9 out of ten people like chocolate and half of those people crave chocolate and that a billion people ate chocolate yesterday and a billion people will eat chocolate today. It used to be that we were told that chocolate was bad for you and yet, now we are learning that there are many benefits to raw cacao which is used to make... Read More
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Dark Chocolate May Reduce Stress |
| 1/24/2010 1:02:36 AM |
 Dark chocolate reduces stress? Are we surprised?
It's why we reach for a chocolate, but now there's another study showing that about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate daily for two weeks reduces the stress hormones in the body. The chocolate tested is not available over the counter in the USA, but it's probable that any 70% dark chocolate cacao will... Read More |
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Cocoa Prices Up - Dark Chocolate Alert |
| 1/15/2010 1:33:22 PM |
Watch out for dark chocolate quality!
 Cocoa prices have almost doubled in the last two years and are at a 30 year high for cocoa futures (as of December 2009). Prices have risen as demand for dark chocolate has increased and tight inventory and low cocoa farm investments merged. Many chocolate companies are rethinking strategies for sale and... Read More |
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Global chocolate sales up in 2009 |
| 1/6/2010 1:31:56 PM |
Dark chocolate sales are up!
According to a newsletter from Belgianshop.com: chocolate sales around the world busted through the recession in 2009, the international research firm Mintel communicated at the end of December.
In China and the Ukraine - two countries not necessarily recognized for their rampant chocoholic populations - chocolate... Read More |
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Chocolate with Probiotics for Weight Loss? |
| 1/6/2010 12:53:42 AM |
 According to Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D. a Yahoo! Health Expert for Nutrition, the human body has more bacteria living inside than individual cells (like ten times more.) The best of the microorganisms we can have are probiotics. Now there is research from Stanford University School of Medicine and StanfordHospital and Clinics that suggests that... Read More
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Dark Chocolate may reduce STRESS |
| 12/22/2009 11:50:59 AM |
Dark chocolate reducing stress is a no-brainer for most people. We chocoholics understand that in a moment. Isn't that one of the reasons many of us reach for a yummy piece of dark chocolate? When we are stressed? Now there is scientific evidence to show that chocolate reduces stress. Yeah!
According to a new study published online in ACS' Journal of... Read More |
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Off color chocolate joke |
| 12/9/2009 4:09:41 PM |
A little boy and his grandfather rake leaves in the yard. The little boy sees an earthworm trying to get back into its hole.
He says, "Grandpa, I bet I can put that worm back in that hole."
The grandfather replies, "I'll bet you five dollars you can't. It's too wiggly and limp to put back in that little hole."
The little boy runs... Read More |
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Chocolate for coughs |
| 11/29/2009 7:15:04 PM |
 Eating chocolate could be more effective than sucking a lozenge at treating coughs, say doctors.
They have made the surprising discovery that a chemical found in chocolate is better at suppressing a throaty tickle than medication used in cough medicines. We've always said that there are many benefits to eating chocolate (as if we needed another... Read More |
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Camel Milk Chocolate |
| 11/4/2009 1:39:49 PM |
 Here's something interesting: The first camel milk chocolate (and it's 70% cocoa!)
Out of Dubai, UAE All Nassma Chocolate became the first company in the world to produce camel milk chocolate. They've been working on this uniquely tasting chocolate aimed at the Arabic palate for several years.
There are five different flavors available in the Al... Read More |
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