Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |  The choices were corn, alfalfa sprouts, hot dogs, spinach, peaches, bananas, and milk chocolate.The most popular choice was bananas (42 percent), followed by spinach (27 percent), corn (12 percent), alfalfa sprouts (7 percent), peaches (5 percent), hot dogs (4 percent), and milk chocolate (3 percent). Only 7 percent of the participants chose one of the two foods that would in fact best support survival: hot dogs and milk chocolate.
Evidently some of the wreckage of the lipid hypothesis has washed up on Rozin's desert island. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  Bryan Raudenbush, a researcher from Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia, discovered that verbal and visual memory were significantly higher in those subjects who consumed milk chocolate as opposed to dark chocolate.
Tips on Using Chocolate: (Do you really need any? Ha!)
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Chocolate comes in a variety of forms such as cocoa powder; dark chocolate, also known as "bittersweet"; milk chocolate; and baking chocolate. White chocolate is not chocolate.
• Avoid purchasing chocolate that has a grayish tone, white spots on the surface, or small holes. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts | | The most popular choice was bananas (42 percent), followed by spinach (27 percent), corn (12 percent), alfalfa sprouts (7 percent), peaches (5 percent), hot dogs (4 percent), and milk chocolate (3 percent). Only 7 percent of the participants chose one of the two foods that would in fact best support survival: hot dogs and milk chocolate.
Evidently some of the wreckage of the lipid hypothesis has washed up on Rozin's desert island.
"Fat," he writes, "seems to have assumed, even at low levels, the role of a toxin" in our dietary imaginations. I wonder why. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
See book keywords and concepts |  Choose dark chocolate over milk chocolate.
?Eat natural, unsalted nut butter or freshly ground peanuts instead of commercial peanut butter.
?Make chili with lean, ground round (or turkey breast), fewer beans, and no-salt-added canned tomatoes. Top with cilantro and guacamole instead of cheese.
Unfortunately, some foods are impossible to "healthy up." Examples are processed meats such as hot dogs and cheese dips. Eat these bad boys no more than two or three times a year; July Fourth, the Super Bowl, and a free pass. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The case of milk chocolate is different. A significant portion of the lipid content in milk chocolate comes from milk fats, as well as some vegetable fats used in candy as filler. Despite its high sugar content, dark chocolate has a relatively low glycemic index, half that of white bread and similar to that of orange juice. All in all, the high fat and sugar content of both types of chocolate makes for a calorie-rich food that should be eaten in moderation.
The interest in the potential health benefits of chocolate did not come about as a result of its fat and sugar content! |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  This benefit is only found in dark chocolate, however. milk chocolate binds to the antioxidants in chocolate and makes them unavailable. It is also higher in fat content. Dark chocolate, with 70 percent cocoa or more, also known as bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, contains little or no added sugar and is made from cocoa butter, which has a neutral or even beneficial effect on cholesterol. Dark chocolate is also made without the use of hydrogenated or partially hydro-genated oils, which have a negative impact on cholesterol. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
See book keywords and concepts |  The second man was Daniel Peter (1836-1919), a Swiss chocolate manufacturer of Alsatian origin; he came up with the brilliant idea of using Nestle's powder in the fabrication of a new kind of chocolate, and, in 1879, the first milk chocolate bar was produced. The basic part of their process was simple: they dried out the moisture in the mix and replaced it with cacao butter, so that it could be poured into a mold.
1879 was a star year for the Swiss, for during it, Rudolphe Lindt (1855-1909) invented "conching," which vastly improved the quality of chocolate confectionery. | | As for obesity among so-called "chocoholics," this would probably be the result of overindulgence in milk chocolate, which has high levels of sugar, in combination with a sedentary lifestyle.
Theobromine, the other alkaloid in chocolate, is said to be mood-enhancing, and is a known stimulant, vasodilater, and diuretic. While it easily metabolized by humans, even in large amounts, it is definitely poisonous to (and even lethal to) dogs and cats. In small to medium-sized pets, theobromine can cause seizures and even death. | | In 1824, Cadbury opened a coffee-and-tea shop in Birmingham, where he
Advertisement for Fry's Milk Chocolate; ]. S. Fry & Sons were sole suppliers of chocolate to the Royal Navy. sold the traditional chocolate drink. In time, the Cadbury family expanded the chocolate side of the business, and in 1853 scored a coup of their own when they obtained the royal privilege as purveyors of chocolate to Queen Victoria. Cadbury's greatest commercial triumph came in 1866. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The same technique is used to make milk chocolate, except that milk solids are added, thus reducing the cocoa mass content to about 20-40%. Fine dark and milk chocolates have little in common with the products consumed in large quantities by North Americans, more chocolate-flavoured candy than chocolate. These products contain very little cocoa (federal laws prohibit their being labelled "chocolate"); instead of cocoa butter, they contain filler ingredients such as saturated fats. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |  Pediatric Use: Large quantities of chocolate products can lead to overexcitability, racing pulse, and sleep disorders in children because of the caffeine content, which can be as high as 0.2% in milk chocolate and 0.4% in bitter chocolate.
COCOA SEED COAT
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. Cocoa and cocoa products can cause allergic reactions. Large dosages lead to constipation due to the tannin content. The amines can trigger migraine attacks. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
See book keywords and concepts | | In almost all of this material, the reported results are based upon dark chocolate rather than milk chocolate. Dark chocolate is an incredibly complex substance, known to contain more than 400 and possibly as many as 500 compounds (which is why it has never been synthesized). The actions on the human body of most of these remain unknown, which is why one should keep a healthy skepticism about wide-ranging claims.
First of all, the good news is that dark chocolate "does no harm," to use the Hippocratic phrase - at least to humans. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
See book keywords and concepts |  Rats don't overeat rat chow, yet give them sugar or milk chocolate and wham, they can't stop gobbling.6 Most of us are no different: we keep eating sugar-laden food until we're dead. And here's the worst part-sugar is exactly what your genes want you to eat.
And here's why. You have a certain type of shoulder joint, shared only with great apes, that enables apes to hang from and move under branches, including the flimsy ends of branches where most fruit hangs out of reach to other primates. | | But Jed loved doughnuts, Diet Coke, cookies, milk chocolate, and sandwiches made with whole wheat bread. Imagine his surprise when a massive heart attack struck him down at a tennis resort. After inserting a balloon and stent to open the clogged coronary artery, the local cardiologist delivered the bad news: five other blood vessels were severely blocked.
After Jed had recovered, I performed the quintuple bypass and didn't like what I saw. Plaque coated every blood vessel. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts | | Only 7 percent of the participants chose one of the two foods that would in fact best support survival: hot dogs and milk chocolate.
Evidently some of the wreckage of the lipid hypothesis has washed up on Rozin's desert island.
"Fat," he writes, "seems to have assumed, even at low levels, the role of a toxin" in our dietary imaginations. I wonder why. As Rozin points out, "Worrying so much about food can't be very good for your health." Indeed. Orthorexia nervosa is an eating disorder not yet recognized by the DSM-IV, but some psychologists have recently suggested that it's time it was. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  You'll see the best of these bars with labels that say things like "60 percent cocoa" (70 percent or higher is even better, but much harder to find). milk chocolate and white chocolate have virtually none of these health benefits. Plus, the commercial candy bars are loaded with extra sugar, fat, waxes, and chemicals that are not what you want to be adding to your diet. And the more chocolate is processed, the more the beneficial flavonoids are lost.
The fat in chocolate is from cocoa butter and actually contains three different kinds of fat. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts |  The Swiss were short on chocolate and sugat but had plenty of milk, so in 1876 milk chocolate was introduced to the rest of the world, a concoction developed by M. Daniel Peter. Milton Snaveley Hershey invented the candy bar in 1894 after seeing a German chocolate-making machine at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. He ordered one of the German machines and began experimenting, loosing on the market a couple of candy bars that ate still popular today: the Hershey's milk chocolate Bar and the Hershey's milk chocolate with Almonds Bar. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts | | SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Chocolate comes in a variety of forms such as cocoa powder; dark chocolate, also known as "bittersweet"; milk chocolate; and baking chocolate. White chocolate is not chocolate.
• Avoid purchasing chocolate that has a grayish tone, white spots on the surface, or small holes.
• Chocolate will keep for several months at room temperature of refrigerated or frozen.
PREPARATION AND SERVING SUGGESTIONS:
• When melting chocolate, be careful to keep its temperature under 120° F (49° C), because overheating will alter its flavor. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
See book keywords and concepts | | Essentially, there are three processes, to result in three different products: (1) cocoa powder; (2) dark chocolate; (3) milk chocolate.26 We have already seen that cocoa powder is manufactured by removing most of the cocoa butter by hydraulic presses, but this may also be done by solvents; the resulting cake is then pulverized, after which sugar is added through a cooking procedure. Alkalization can be applied to the cacao nibs, to the liquor, or to the cake. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Pediatric Use: Large quantities of chocolate products can lead to overexcitability, racing pulse and sleep disorders in children because of the caffeine content, which can be as high as 0.2% in milk chocolate and 0.4% in bitter chocolate. cacao testes
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. Cocoa and cocoa products can cause allergic reactions. Large dosages lead to constipation due to the tannin content. The amines can trigger migraine attacks. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
See book keywords and concepts | | Does that mean you can gobble up milk chocolate guilt free? No way. The active ingredients in cocoa mimic the bitter polyphenols found in green tea and coffee, but all are completely inactivated by milk. That's why only very dark chocolate, as indicated by 70 percent or more cocoa content, has a beneficial effect. Raw cocoa beans and non-Dutch processed cocoa also contain these polyphenols. You can add them to coffee to make mocha or even vegetable smoothies, stir-fries, and sauces. The ancient elixir of the Incas and Aztecs, mole sauce, was based on cocoa. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  The finest plain dark chocolate contains at least 70% cocoa (solids and butter), whereas the most expensive milk chocolate usually contains about 50% cocoa. High-quality white chocolate contains around 30% cocoa. Most mass-produced chocolate contains as little as 7 percent cocoa and fats other than cocoa butter. These "chocolate" products have little to do with chocolate because of the low or virtually non-existent cocoa content.
The chocolate that most people consume is relatively inexpensive. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
See book keywords and concepts | | When a pochteca merchant had returned from his dusty and dangerous trading trip to the low country, and wished to celebrate by giving a feast for his colleagues,
Chocolate
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Posters claim that Cadbury's cocoa makes men stronger (left), and Hershey's milk chocolate is a meal in itself (above). Bird's eye view of Fry's chocolate factory in 19th-century Bristol (below).
The Maya god of merchants approaches a fantastic cacao tree, on a mural from Cacaxtla, in central Mexico, far from the Maya area (right). Terminal Classic period, c. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts | | He ordered one of the German machines and began experimenting, loosing on the market a couple of candy bars that ate still popular today: the Hershey's milk chocolate Bar and the Hershey's milk chocolate with Almonds Bar.
Buying Tips
Purchase only organic raw cacao or products made from the organic raw cacao beans. Non-organic products may be fumigated and contain more extraneous material than you desire. There are very few suppliers of this type of product in the United States at this time. Most products sold are from roasted beans. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Robert Cohen: No, I did not, although I was eating, a year after I made the discovery, I was still eating milk chocolate, and that was my weakness, without recognizing that it takes 4 pounds of milk to make one pound of milk chocolate. So, I was getting it in different forms. I would occasionally eat a slice of bread that had milk powder in it. Now, I'm pretty obsessive about it. I have zero dairy, and I haven't had any for six or seven years, but I've occasionally made mistakes, but not of recent times. Do I salivate when I see pizza? Absolutely. Do I remember how delicious it was? Sure. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Milk chocolate is sold as bars and candies.
• Cocoa powder: Dried, powdered chocolate liquor that contains 10 to 22 percent cocoa butter is classified as cocoa powder.
• Dutch-process cocoa powder: Darker in color and mellower in flavor than regular cocoa powder, Dutch-process cocoa powder (also
CHOCOLATE: AN APHRODISIAC, LOVE POTION, AND ANTIDEPRESSANT?
Chocolate has long been associated with love, and scientists have finally discovered a possible chemical connection. | | Cadbury Brothers chocolate made its international debut in 1851, at the famous International Exposition orchestrated by Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, and held at Bingley Hall in Birmingham, England; milk chocolate appeared in 1875, developed after eight years of experimentation by Daniel Peter, a Swiss chocolate manufacturer who had the idea of using powdered milk (invented by the Swiss chemist Henri Nestle in 1867) to make a new kind of chocolate. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | That's why it's called "milk chocolate." It's also loaded with refined white sugars, which turn an ordinary piece of healthy chocolate from the rain forest into a candy bar that promotes both heart disease and diabetes.
Good nutrition makes exercise easier
Another way in which outstanding nutrition aids in weight loss is by giving you the energy and motivation to engage in physical exercise. It has been clearly shown in the medical literature that weight loss is simply not possible without engaging in frequent physical exercise. |
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