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Medical: Food: Antioxydant: Flavonoid: Chocolate: Dark: Can you tell more about dark chocolate?
Nov 27th, 2006 01:25
tina web, Knud van Eeden,
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Medical: Food: Antioxydant: Flavonoid: Chocolate: Dark: Can you tell
more about dark chocolate?
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It has been shown that cocoa, as present in e.g. dark chocolate, is
loaded with antioxidants (e.g. about twice more than in red wine and
three times more than in green tea).
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As milk neutralizes most of this effects, the effects are most
dominantly seen in the dark chocolate variation.
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Dark chocolate has a range of medicinal and physiological influences on
the human body which include e.g.
-stimulating effects
(similar to certain physiological effects experienced during physical
exercise)
-mood boosts
-influence on the condition of the cardiac system
(e.g. reducing blood pressure, indirectly reducing all cause
mortality probability by an improved cardio-vascular system state)
-healing effects on the pneumatic system
(e.g. persistent coughs)
-sun protection (e.g. better looking skin, protection skin against
ultra-violet radiation (skin cancer))
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This remarkable properties of dark chocolate put it in the same
category of magic bullets or medical panaceas like garlic, red wine,
(green) tea, olive oil, broccoli, curry, and omega fatty acids in fish.
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Internet: see also:
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Dark chocolate: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_chocolate
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Dark chocolate boosts antioxidant levels
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4101
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Eating dark chocolate may halve risk of dying
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn8780.html
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Eating dark chocolate may protect against skin cancer (better looking
skin)
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060610/food.asp
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Amphetamine-like chemical linked to exercise mood boosts
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1352
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Persistent coughs melt away with chocolate
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6699
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Dark chocolate: Fatigue / Cancer probability reducing effects
http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm/ID/3464/
http://christmasgiftsidea.blogspot.com/
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Dark chocolate: Google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=dark%20chocolate
http://christmasgiftsidea.blogspot.com/2006_11_18_archive.html
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Chocolate: Overview [longevity]
http://www.chocolate.org/index.html
http://christmasgiftsidea.blogspot.com/search/label/Christmas-gifts
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Chocolate: Medicine: History: Food of the gods
http://www.chocolate.org/history.htm
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Chocolate: Caries inhibiting effects
http://www.chocolate.org/caries.html
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Antioxidants: Flavonoid
http://www.answers.com/flavonoid
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Learning: Link: Overview: Can you give an overview of links?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/33510/fid/1741
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