Had a Heart Attack? Chocolate More Powerful than Meds

Wow!!  66% reduction in cardiac mortality?????  My favorite snack  at the office is a handful of bulk nuts (almonds, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts and macadamia) with some dark chocolate espresso beans mixed in.  Wonder what  THAT drops my risk down to?  I’d bet I’d have to take up smoking just to  bring my risk up to zero…

Best. News. Ever. Chocolate Fights Diabetes!

In honor of heart health month, our office has been running a trivia raffle centered around protecting your heart. One of the “gimmie” questions is true or false: Dark chocolate is good for your health. Most of the answers we got from patients were correct. It seems that most of us are aware of the […]

Is Dark Chocolate Good for You? What About Weight Gain?

Chocolate.  Even the word brings happy thoughts.  But society has attached some incorrect negative connotations to the word and has strayed away from the idea that dark chocolate is good for you. First of all, let’s clarify that we are talking about DARK chocolate here, not the dreaded milk chocoate that contains dairy and no […]

Cocoa and dark chocolate on LDL oxidative susceptibility – (11-08-01)

Cocoa and dark chocolate on LDL oxidative susceptibility Great news for chocalate lovers!! It does appear that the polyphenols in chocolate do have some protective effects. However, this article does not take into effect the affect of stearic acid in the chocolate that are believed to have adverse effects of lipids. AJCN — Abstracts: Wan […]

Calcium supplementation of chocolate: effect on digestibility and lipids – (02-08-01)

Calcium supplementation of chocolate: effect on digestibility and lipids This article examines the effects of adding calcium to chocolate to lower the absorption of the fat. The addition of calcium carbonate lowered the absorption of lipids without affecting the taste. A few things to consider here. First, we all know that, if we knew a […]