Health & Wellness

- Drinking hot cocoa might have benefits for your brain, according to a small new study. - That's because flavanols, a type of nutrients found in plants, could help boost your blood oxygen levels, which is linked to better cognitive…
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Cocoa Butter: The Fat Parametre You might have heard of the name cocoa butter pomade, chocolate bars, chocolate cake, and chocolate chip ice cream and might not have consciously realized that it is actually coming from cocoa. Of course,…
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Cocoa is one of many unique and common food items that are highly demanded in our present world. Extracted from Theobroma Cacao, the cocoa seeds and butter are used for many purposes with demands increasingly intriguing.…
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Liver disease accounts for approximately 2 million deaths per year worldwide, 1 million due to complications of cirrhosis and 1million due to viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. About 2 billion people consume alcohol worldwide…
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This piece was stimulated by an enquiry from a reader if there was any paper to prove the benefit of cocoa to prevent the development of diabetes mellitus. One of the things to do is to find out if there was any evidence to support this…
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An estimated 18 million cases of cancer were reported around the world in 2018, of which 9.5 million cases were in men and 8.5 million in women. Medical research continues towards finding the most potent solution to manage the condition in…
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An article in the Daily Telegraph of May 2018 caught my eye. It was actually a work reported to have been done at the Cambridge University. It was titled “Anti-aging chocolate which reduces wrinkles developed by Cambridge University…
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A few weeks ago I did an article on the cognitive-enhancing effects of cocoa. The article was informed by a paper I saw in the Frontiers in Nutrition published in May 2017. The paper looked at the improved cognitive function of cocoa…
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Mondelez International has renewed its focus on portion control in its products with a commitment to bring its Cadbury chocolate bar ranges sold as part of a multipack under 200 calories by the end of 2021. According to the global…
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