Study Finds Chocolate Does Good Things For You
I found this article on how chocolate appears to be responsible for creating cardiovascular benefits. I just pulled parts of this article, you will find a link to the full article below.
The study, titled “Cocoa beans, endothelial function and aging: an unexpected friendship?” was done at the Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Sanità Pubblica, Università di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy. A highly readable report was in the New York Times in an article by Nicholas Bakalar on 15 August entitled, “Circulation: Blood Flow Improves With New Mix of Cocoa.” The authors of the study, Dr. Naomi D. L. Fisher, the lead author, and her co-author Dr. Norman K. Hollenberg, published in the Journal of Hypertension in August. Please note, however, Mars, Inc. supported the study and supplied the cocoa.
Doctors Fisher and Hollenberg saw a “...significant increase in flow-mediated dilation, as measured by finger tonometry, in 15 healthy individuals aged under 50 years and 19 healthy individuals aged 50 years (or older,) after 4-6 days of cocoa supplementation.” They chose 34 subjects who were healthy without evidence of cardio-vascular, endocrine or kidney disease. None were on medications. Of the 34, 19 were over 50 years old. The study shows that the older the subject, the more the flavonol-rich cocoa worked.
The cocoa used for the test was not the usually available chocolate or cocoa drink processed to a point where the flavonols are no longer present. These flavonols are a class of flavonoids, which include wine, tea, vegetable and tea components that appear to be responsible for creating cardiovascular benefits. Along with chocolate, the flavonols are also effectively beneficial from flavonol-rich, purple grape juice and from drinking tea (today's news mentioned new findings on the benefits of green tea.)
The study notes “Several substances are naturally contained in the cocoa bean and may be responsible for the observed potentiation in nitric oxide-dependent vasorelaxation.” Eating and drinking these flavonol-rich substances (cocoa, tea, grape juice) act in a way similar to taking nitroglycerine. They relax the arteries and allow them to pass more blood to the organs – especially the heart.
For the complete article on this, goto: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/13/140940.php
Now Come check out Our Healthy Chocolate Products they are different, they have retained the flavanoils in the cocoa, because our cocoa is cold processed and has no or little preservatives and little or no sugar added! This makes Our products even good for those that are Diabetic.
For more information on our Chocolate products and a Sweet Income Opportunity,
Come See Our Site: http://www.greathealthychocolate.com
The study, titled “Cocoa beans, endothelial function and aging: an unexpected friendship?” was done at the Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Sanità Pubblica, Università di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy. A highly readable report was in the New York Times in an article by Nicholas Bakalar on 15 August entitled, “Circulation: Blood Flow Improves With New Mix of Cocoa.” The authors of the study, Dr. Naomi D. L. Fisher, the lead author, and her co-author Dr. Norman K. Hollenberg, published in the Journal of Hypertension in August. Please note, however, Mars, Inc. supported the study and supplied the cocoa.
Doctors Fisher and Hollenberg saw a “...significant increase in flow-mediated dilation, as measured by finger tonometry, in 15 healthy individuals aged under 50 years and 19 healthy individuals aged 50 years (or older,) after 4-6 days of cocoa supplementation.” They chose 34 subjects who were healthy without evidence of cardio-vascular, endocrine or kidney disease. None were on medications. Of the 34, 19 were over 50 years old. The study shows that the older the subject, the more the flavonol-rich cocoa worked.
The cocoa used for the test was not the usually available chocolate or cocoa drink processed to a point where the flavonols are no longer present. These flavonols are a class of flavonoids, which include wine, tea, vegetable and tea components that appear to be responsible for creating cardiovascular benefits. Along with chocolate, the flavonols are also effectively beneficial from flavonol-rich, purple grape juice and from drinking tea (today's news mentioned new findings on the benefits of green tea.)
The study notes “Several substances are naturally contained in the cocoa bean and may be responsible for the observed potentiation in nitric oxide-dependent vasorelaxation.” Eating and drinking these flavonol-rich substances (cocoa, tea, grape juice) act in a way similar to taking nitroglycerine. They relax the arteries and allow them to pass more blood to the organs – especially the heart.
For the complete article on this, goto: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/13/140940.php
Now Come check out Our Healthy Chocolate Products they are different, they have retained the flavanoils in the cocoa, because our cocoa is cold processed and has no or little preservatives and little or no sugar added! This makes Our products even good for those that are Diabetic.
For more information on our Chocolate products and a Sweet Income Opportunity,
Come See Our Site: http://www.greathealthychocolate.com
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