Healthy Chocolate, I know it sounds strange to say it. However, not all chocolate is healthy and let me tell you why.

Commercial chocolate is high in white sugar, trans fat, hydrogenated oil, wax, fillers, and preservatives. And then they add caffeine… to hook ya’!

Dark chocolate contains flavonoids which have been found to moderate blood pressure among other things.

A moderate amount of dark healthy chocolate, particularly cocoa may be sweet for the cardiovascular system. Eating dark chocolate can help bring down blood pressure and protect against tooth decay.

It may also be brain food. It can help improve the function of important cells lining the wall of the blood vessels for at least 3 hours. It may also lower LDL(bad) cholesterol and improve sugar metabolism.

Antioxidant scores are so high in pure cocoa, many people are now referring to cocoa as a superfood. Healthy dark chocolate is low glycemic, sweetened with complex sugar, and absorbs slowly into your body.

The Orac Scale measures the antioxidants in foods loaded with epicatechins (is like the work horse in cocao) these are processed out of commercial chocolate.

Science Daily Says :

The health benefits of epicatechins – A compund found in cocao so striking the health benefits could outshine penicillin. Epicatechin can potentially get rid of 4 of the most 5 common diseases in the world.

Storke, Heart Failure, Cancer, Diabetes.

Free Radicals are damaged molecules that do harm to your body.

You can’t avoid them, when you breathe you burn oxygen and make free radicals as a by product. Under stress you make more. We live in a society of pollution, take medications, eat fast foods, travel on airplanes, all these things and many more load you up with free radicals.

Free radicals have been tied into over 200 degenerative disease processes by the medical community, so you want to interupt their activity, and the way to do that is to take antioxidants. An antioxidant neutralizes the free radicals and keep it from doing anymore damage.

Dr. Ricahrd Cutler – Anti-Aging Reasearch Dept. National Institute of Health Washington D.C. states : The amount of antioxidants that you maintain in your body is directly proportional to how long and healthy you will live. So the length of your life is tied into the antioxidant intake.

The ORAC Scale = Nutrients for each individual fruit and vegatable and assigned them point scales for their ability to neutralize free radicals. Minimum antioxidant of 3000 per day, optimally you need 12-15,000 a day, we normally get around 800.

Health benefits of Flavonoid Rich Dark Chocolate and Acai Berry

Encourages healthier cardiovascular and respitory function, Helps promote joint flexibilty and ease of motion (anti-inflammatory), Encourages healthier blood pressure, Encourages healthier cholesterol levels, May act as a histamine blocker, Increases seretonin levels (the hormone that makes you happy), Encourages dental health (lowers bacteria in your mouth and increases circulation of your gums), Helps suppress cravings, Encourages healthy elimination

Natural sexual stimulant

Skin benefits and many other benefits

That is the product side of Xocai…

There is also the business side of Xocai…

Cocoa Flavonols

Unprocessed, unadulterated, undamaged cocao powder. There are 6 products that are outstandingly high in antioxidants.

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Here is a wonderful topic of discussion, Cocoa and your heart. Antioxidants in cocoa might help your heart by keeping your blood vessels relaxed, thus easing blood pressure and helping circulation, so says a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (WebMD).

The study shows that the antioxidants in this raw chocolate, called flavonoids, coax the body into making more nitric oxide, which relaxes the blood vessels.

The researchers included Norman Hollenberg, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He tells WebMD that cocoa’s flavonoids could improve heart health.

“Now, would it replace giving up cigarettes? No, I don’t think so,” Hollenberg says.

“Would it replace adjusting your lipids? No, I don’t think so. But it’s a very powerful factor and I think it probably ranks with cholesterol as an important factor in heart attacks.”

Consumers should closely examine products touting flavonoids, Hollenberg says. “You have to demand that they tell you the flavonoid content. I mean, I notice that some of the ads on chocolate say that ‘This contains more than 70 percent cocoa powder’, which is a nice claim but it has nothing to do with flavonoids.

Most people don’t measure flavonoids, so they don’t tell you.
Flavonoids are found in many plants, including onions, broccoli, and tea. but in raw chocolate it stands by itself- it’s extraordinarily rich in flavonoids. Could you get the same amount of flavonoids from other foods? Well, yes and no. You have to eat a lot of broccoli and onions and drink a lot of tea, but you can.

Chocolate also contains flavonoids, but the problem with chocolate is the burden of fat it carries, so it’s hard to make chocolate a health food, whereas the chocolate has the fat squeezed out of it, so it could be a health food, he continues.
Now, I’m hoping that people actually make a flavonoid-rich chocolate that will be available for sale and that people incorporate into their diets. It hasn’t happened yet, but I’m hoping it will,” says Hollenberg.

That chocolate has happened, it is called Xocai Healthy Chocolate.

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