Can Dark Chocolate fight cancer?
January 13, 2009 by admin
Filed under Herbal Medicine
New research is coming out that shows that the chemicals in chocolate may help to prevent cancer. While doctors are not calling it cure, there is serious research that is taking a look at chocolates ability to fight cancer.
Chocolate has been shown to have numerous health benefits and a large number of antioxidants that can help a number of medical problems. Researchers are looking specifically at Dark Chocolate because it has the most health benefits and the largest number of antioxidants. Dark chocolate contains around 8 times the number of antioxidants found in strawberries.
Chocolate has been shown to:
- Elevate the mood
- Help prevent the signs of aging
- Help with heart disease
- It may keep high blood pressure down
- Promote blood Flow
- reduce LDL cholesterol by up to 10 percent
- be a mild anti-depressant
- stimulates endorphin production, which leads to feelings of pleasure
Now this doesn’t mean you should cram a pound of chocolate into your mouth everyday, but a small piece of Organic Dark Chocolate can be good for your oveall health.


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