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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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National Chocolate Day |
| 10/28/2009 10:53:15 PM |
 National Chocolate day is every October 28th, So be sure you celebrate by eating extra chocolate today. National chocolate day only comes once a year, but we should take a little time every day to remember where chocolate comes from (no, not the chocolate elves, from the cacao tree)
And we can look at the health benefits we get every day we eat |
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Can chocolate can stop a cough? |
| 10/19/2009 7:12:43 PM |
 Believe it or not, it is possible according to Charles Stuart Platkin (a nutrition and public health advocate and founder of www.DietDetective.com).
But it's dark chocolate that has the benefits, not milk chocolate. In fact, historically, many people including Nicolas de Blegny, doctor to the king of France in the late 1600s, have believed that... Read More |
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Chocolate beats cholesterol |
| 10/6/2009 8:54:36 AM |
 Diets high in flavonoid-rich cocoa powder and dark chocolate have a favourable effect on LDL ("bad" cholesterol) when compared with diets that limit or exclude other flavonoid sources such as tea, coffee, wine and onions, US researchers reveal this week.
Scientists at Penn State led by Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton , evaluated and compared LDL... Read More |
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7 Healthy Reasons To Enjoy Chocolate Without Guilt! |
| 10/5/2009 1:25:16 AM |
From an article on the Huffington Post: It might not be much of a surprise when we read about how eatingbroccoli can lower the risk of certain cancers, or how loaded withantioxidants fruits and vegetables are. It seems that virtually everyday we see a report of a newly-discovered health benefit of a fruit orvegetable. We can almost expect foods we... Read More |
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Chocolate passes clinical trial test for artery and heart health |
| 10/1/2009 7:26:36 AM |
 Daily supplements of a flavonoid-rich chocolate may reduce biochemical markers of arterial hardening and boost heart health, say results of a randomized controlled trial.
Consumption of the antioxidant-rich chocolate containing 495 mg of polyphenols led to reductions in levels of inflammatory compounds which contribute to development of... Read More |
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Chocolate Does Not Contain Caffeine |
| 9/28/2009 8:18:53 AM |
There is a persistent urban legend that Chocolate contains caffeine. It would seem that this rumor is based primarily on a confusion between two similar alkaloids: caffeine and Theobromine. Theobromine is the active ingredient in Chocolate and it occurs only in Cacao. The two stimulants are related and have a similar structures, but are very... Read More |
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Heart Benefit for Chocolate |
| 9/22/2009 12:36:31 AM |
 In a study that will provide comfort to chocoholics everywhere, researchers in Sweden have found evidence that people who eat chocolate have increased survival rates after a heart attack — and it may be that the more they eat, the better.
The scientists followed 1,169 nondiabetic men and women who had been hospitalized for a first heart attack. Each... Read More |
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Is chocolate a health food? |
| 9/20/2009 10:27:37 PM |
 When asked what he thought about news that chocolate was good for the heart, Andrew Weil, M.D. talked about the news about chocolate - that it makes blood vessels more flexible- adds to accumulating evidence that chocolate offers a number of health benefits and may be good for the heart. Earlier findings had shown that chocolate contains... Read More
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Chocolate and Resveratrol |
| 8/30/2009 1:04:49 AM |
Resveratrol - Just Another Reason to Eat Cacao
Yuri Elkaim, BPHE, CK, RHN
 Resveratrol is the highly potent antioxidant most commonly known for its presence in red wine. It has been at the heart of the debate as to why French people live healthier lives. But recent research is showing that red wine is not the only substantial source of resveratrol.
And... Read More |
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