In the current issue of Eating Well there is an article about "Is Chocoalte a Cure-All? I would say no because while I like chocoalte I'm not one of the women who go ga ga over it. Give me meat and/or potatoes over it any day.
They did have some cute facts though. According to them 60% of women ranked chocolate as the most smile-worthy experience edging out other people smiling and loved one. Men's top picks were a Sunday roast. YAY. I vote with men this time.
It is also suppose to help you see better. In fact if people have trouble seeing movement and direction of movement at night it might be improved with some dark chocolate (over time of course).
The third thing it said was that it's a diet food. Now mind you the "preliminary findings" were from Hershey (can we say a biased point of view?). Hershey research says that natural cocoa has more flavanols than dutch processed cocoa which may prevent some fats and starches in other foods from being absorbed.
So the recipe they give for making your own cocoa is:
Combine 1 tablespoon natural cocoa powder and 1 tablespoon sugar in a mug. Swril in 1 cup steaming low fat milk. Spice it up with an add in.
Possible add ins:
orange peel and ground coves
ground cardamon and vanilla
chili pwder and cinnamon
I might have to check it out. Not sure on the cardamon part but vanilla sounds good.
They did have some cute facts though. According to them 60% of women ranked chocolate as the most smile-worthy experience edging out other people smiling and loved one. Men's top picks were a Sunday roast. YAY. I vote with men this time.
It is also suppose to help you see better. In fact if people have trouble seeing movement and direction of movement at night it might be improved with some dark chocolate (over time of course).
The third thing it said was that it's a diet food. Now mind you the "preliminary findings" were from Hershey (can we say a biased point of view?). Hershey research says that natural cocoa has more flavanols than dutch processed cocoa which may prevent some fats and starches in other foods from being absorbed.
So the recipe they give for making your own cocoa is:
Combine 1 tablespoon natural cocoa powder and 1 tablespoon sugar in a mug. Swril in 1 cup steaming low fat milk. Spice it up with an add in.
Possible add ins:
orange peel and ground coves
ground cardamon and vanilla
chili pwder and cinnamon
I might have to check it out. Not sure on the cardamon part but vanilla sounds good.
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