Ever wonder why chocolate doesn't spoil? Why you can leave a chocolate bar
un-refrigerated for months without compromising its freshness or taste?
The answer is that chocolate contains potent doses of the polyphenol which
are the antioxidants also found in green tea.
I mean just check out this quote found from the 1700’s!
“Chocolate of good quality…calms the fever, nourishes…the
patient and tends to restore him to health".
-Francis Joseph Victor Broussais, celebrated French physician, 1772—1836
The current health epidemic in this country is completely avoidable. We
have gone totally overboard, following crazy trends, fad diets all searching
for some miracle. When the miracles have failed we reach for pills and medicines
to “fix” the
damage we have done. Most of this stuff has been at best studied for the
past 50 or so years. We are the test market for the processed foods and drug
companies! They have no real idea what this stuff does to us because it’s
the first time in our history that so much of it is being used.
Nature has been doing the same job for thousands of years without any lobbying
from drug companies.
I have faith that the American public really does know this stuff, we have
just been lazy. That’s where The GoodOnYa Bar comes in!!!!!
The miracle is in nature, it always has been. There are convenient, healthy, great tasting things to eat. And it’s our passion for this that brought about this bar!
According to Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Cologne, Germany in The Journal of the American Medical Association, dark chocolate -- not white chocolate -- lowers high blood pressure. But that's no license to go on a chocolate binge. Eating more dark chocolate can help lower blood pressure -- if you've reached a certain age and have mild high blood pressure. But you have to balance the extra calories by eating less of other things.
Dark chocolate -- but not milk chocolate or dark chocolate eaten with milk -- is a potent antioxidant, reports Mauro Serafini, PhD of Italy's National Institute for Food and Nutrition Research in Rome. Antioxidants gobble up free radicals, which are destructive molecules that are implicated in heart disease and other ailments.
Source: http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20030827/dark-chocolate-is-healthy-chocolate