Some Studies on Cocoa and its benefits

I found the following information online that talks about the health benefits of eating the right kind of chocolate or cocoa.


* Cornell University food scientists say that cocoa has nearly twice the antioxidants of red wine and up to three times those found in green tea. With Raw Cacao Powder, it would be 14 times more than Red Wine and 21 times more than Green Tea!

* Italian researchers found eating 100 grams of dark chocolate each day for 15 days lowered blood pressure in the 15-person study. The University of L'Aquila team also found the body's ability to metabolize sugar — a problem for people with diabetes — was improved. Because the effect was believed to be due to Antioxidant levels, with Raw Cacao Powder we can likely multiply this effect.

* Doctor Gabriel Cousens’ clinical research (which I have taken part in) has demonstrated that eating cacao and cacao products (chocolate powder) are safe and healthy and can actually help to improve some blood sugar disorders. Dr. Cousens wrote to me about his results with cacao. He also made the following statement…

“Cacao polyphenols have been scientifically shown to:

1. Lower blood pressure
2. Lower vascular cell adhesion
3. Increase circulating Nitric Oxide
4.Decrease platelet aggregation
5. Decrease rates of death from cardiac mortality and all mortality in general
6. Improve insulin sensitivity
7. Decrease fasting insulin
8. Increase blood flow to the brain
9. Inhibit plasma lipid oxidation
10. Decrease chronic inflammation in the body and cardio-vascular system in general.”

* Dutch researchers indicate that dark chocolate contains four times the amount of catechin antioxidants than black tea. With Raw Cacao Powder, it would be 28 times more than Black Tea and potentially 7 times the protection!

* In trials, doctors at Harvard found that Antioxidant compounds called Flavonols in chocolate help the body to produce Nitric Oxide, a compound essential for proper heart function. (Nitric oxide is also believed by some bodybuilders to help increase muscularity). Again, with Raw Cacao Powder, this effect could easily be multiplied.