What is Healthy Chocolate?

Cocoa Flavanols and Brain Perfusion

Author: Fisher ND, Sorond FA, Hollenberg NK.
Source: J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 47 Suppl 2:S210-4.

Foods and beverages rich in flavonoids are being heralded as potential preventive agents for a range of pathologic conditions, ranging from hypertension to coronary heart disease to stroke and dementia. We and others have demonstrated that short-term ingestion of cocoa, particularly rich in the subclass of flavonoids known as flavanols, induced a consistent and striking peripheral vasodilation in healthy people, improving endothelial function in a nitric oxide-dependent manner...

We Are What We Eat!

What food we put into our bodies markedly determines how we feel and function. The increase in fat intake, decrease intake of fruits and vegetables, lack of exercise, exposure to smoking, and environmental hazards are contributing to chronic illnesses and indirectly aging. We can change or at least slow down wrinkling, mental confusion, dental decay...

What Do the Numbers Mean?

Science is just in its infancy in determining how much antioxidants we need and what types of antioxidants are needed in what proportion. There are many claims of one product having a higher antioxidant number than another product but how do we know? There are several types of scientific test available to measure the quantity of antioxidants in a product.