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Eat Dark Chocolate for Breakfast

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

fibromyalgia and dark chocolateIt'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

dark chocolate chunkDark 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

Watch out for dark chocolate quality!

dark cchocolate cacao beansCocoa 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

Dark chocolate sales are up!
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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?

probiotic dark chocolate with antioxidantsAccording 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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