Chocolate Benefits Discovery Biggest Thing Since The Wheel

Big Pharmaceuticals Locked Out

-Medical Society and Media...Down Play
Can you figure out why? -

 

The mad rush will be for big Pharmaceutical firms to do extensive "research" to separate out the components of Chocolate that are doing all the important wonderful things, try to patent them so the components can be "prescribed". You will wait for a week to get in to pay your doctor $50 bucks to write you a prescription.

This will be much ballyhooed in the media which media will then have a new source of income from these huge ad budget promotions going for a New Medical Miracle Breakthrough now available.

All this, of course, so your local pharmacist at Walgreen's can bill Medicare a charge of $120 bucks for filling the prescription.

You will get these same benefit you can buy at your grocer in the Cocoa Dark Chocolate version now with no side affects for $3.79.

You wont pick up on it and put it to use to change your life because you were of the old school that said if the man in the white coat was not pushing it...you wouldn't believe it.

Right now there is nothing in it for them. Remember the medical society took 25 years to accept and adopt as treatment, that you could cure tuberculosis with sunshine.

More recently, it took 20 years to accept that Ulcers was a "disease" caused by a hyper bacteria and that it could be cured in two weeks.

In the meantime, (twenty years) tens of thousands of patients died needlessly or had their stomach cut out in surgery etc.

The early publicity always had some reporter interviewing a medical authority that always called attention that chocolate might have some benefit, but of course the fat and sugar in chocolate would over the long run, out weigh any benefit etc etc.

The reporter and media never disclosed was the chocolate used in these studies was not a milk chocolate Hershey or Mars candy bar.

These were sugar free chocolate, usually coco, and not milk chocolate. (milk negates the effect) so there is NO downer with sugar free coco etc.

These studies did little to stir any action by health enthusiasts because there was no money in it for the usual "health" pros making a nice living on the same old system they were schooled in.

Their United States pharmaceutical company, who spends 30 plus thousand a year per doctor on drug promotions was not pushing this.

Then a couple years ago the Mars Chocolate company spent some significant money, and a Dutch research firm both came out almost at the same time with very large study numbers (one had 1200 people and the other 450 people) of people in the studies so they could not be poo pooed away.

We broke that news on that in our publications and declared this was the biggest news for senior citizens that ever came down the pike.

In fact we sent a special mailing on this between issues news, to our paid mail subscribers so no subscriber waited any longer then necessary to take advantage of the new knowledge that could change or extend their life.

Both of these studies were looking to see and establish how much effect that chocolate had on hypertension, opening up cardio vascular problems (hardening of the arteries) this was significant, but the ZINGER was that both studies found that those on the chocolate therapy, coco etc daily, had astonishing results on improving cardio vascular problems but the SENSATION was those participating had HALF the deaths from all causes as those on the placebo, so to speak, and with no adverse side effects.

My view, I really do not have to know what it does, just knowing that is has no side effects and the statistics which merely reinforce what other studies have been finding for ten years, convince me this is something NO Senior Citizen that is concerned at all about surviving a few more "GOOD" years can ignore.

Personally, it has changed my life. My thinking ability has been rejuvenated and I can now at 79 outlast and out work a 35 year old.

If you are in the business of doing studies you have the problem that if what your studying does not result in any good result all of your years of work will be ignored and there will be no good publicity for you to do other studies. Therefore when the lid was blown off and sudden interest in chocolate came about and with a history of no one ever having a failure with chocolate not doing what they were testing, dozens of people doing studies jumped in with new studies, on different benefits, such as diabetes.

Every day, (I pay for and get notification of any study anywhere on chocolate) I seem to get several "chocolate study" articles a day, often on the same study, different versions, and view points etc. They are coming fast and furious and STILL NO down side affects have yet to appear.

Here are a few of the new "different" studies to share with you, a cross section that you will see they have used their imagination to try chocolate out on new things.

In case you are not familiar with the original story, the Aztecs introduced chocolate to the invading Spaniards who reportedly kept their troops high on chocolate and over came tough resistance from the Aztecs.

Here are some of the studies recently released on the advantages and uses of Chocolate Therapy.

• Shown to boost insulin sensitivity, lowering risk of diabetes, and/or aid to survival.

• Improves spatial memory, Revs thinking process, ideal aid before tests.

• Scientifically proven to make us feel good.

• Opens up and improves artery functioning (including smokers, at high risk of blood vessel stiffening) which can lead to heart attacks and stroke.

• Raises levels of HDL good� cholesterol while lowering bad cholesterol.

• Daily Consumption reduces the risk of blood clots. does job with no bad side affects like aspirin.

• The biggest, most consistent evidence to date has to do with dark chocolate (no sugar or sugar substitutes,) plain cocoas benefits on the cardiovascular system. relaxing and opening up arteries.

• Women who eat chocolate rated much higher on a standardized scale of sexual functioning.

• U.K. research showed eating chocolate caused a bigger and longer-lasting boost in heart rate and brain activity than passionate kissing.

• Another study found that even small doses of the correct chocolate the size of a couple of Hershey Kisses per day could lower blood pressure.

• UK Researchers found a key ingredient in chocolate, an effective cough remedy. The chemical in doses equivalent to 50g bar of dark chocolate or two cups of cocoa exceeded codeine without the drowsiness and other side affects.

• Discovered Antioxidant flavonol's in dark chocolate that prevent certain cancers.

• Chocolates powerful chemicals even increase blood flow to the brain, warding off dementia.

If you are buying chocolate bars, things get complicated. The Hershey special Dark Chocolate Bar is only 50% chocolate and not worth the trouble and for a diabetic, unusable.

Stick to the highest cocoa content possible--never less then 70% dark chocolate, You can find it now up to 85% dark chocolate.

The bars when packed with sugar and/or milk don't help your health one bit. Avoid artificial sweeteners.

White chocolate, which is essentially coco butter is usually stripped to appease the Low fat folks. We note a recent study saying that the stripped coco fat has none of the anti oxidants etc, but apparently has some value in lowering insulin resistance (according to a study, for diabetics) More on that next time it appears.

We use and recommend in our chocolate recipes, simple Hershey's dark chocolate coco now appearing in more stores. Under $4 and lasts a week, (ask your grocer to get it, he usually will order it, if not stocking it.)   Dutch Process, Alkalized negates some of the flavanoid but means alkaline has been added so it is not so acidic (bad effect) and in making body more acidic.

Alkalized seems to work for me and to be okay in that it makes it less bitter and more consumer friendly since you can now stand the stuff without sugar and input more, thereby making up for the loss in flavanoids present.

Half life of chocolate benefits is six hours. Those in the study were doing chocolate several times a day, most with cocoa in water. I mix mine in a dry non gluten cereal mix of several things, (see recipe) for morning input, drink coco and water mix in afternoon and mix the usual two teaspoons with full fat yogurt in the evening. Initially I mixed in a little chocolate ovaltine to get adjusted to it but no longer do. Also early on I used Jell-O chocolate pudding sugar free mix with my yogurt but after discovering it had aspartame in it, I stopped that as unnecessary.

Initially the unsugared straight coco will likely be too bitter for you, but you do get used to it.