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A Chocolate Fountain of Youth?
- August 14, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Food, Healthcare, News
No CommentsA recent study, published in the journal, Hypertension, found a link between higher amounts of flavanols, ingested via a cocoa-based beverage, and improvements in cognitive function among older adults. The higher the amount of flavanols, the better the test subjects did on the tests, showing greater recall and being able to complete the tests more
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Nestlé Makes the Very Best Choc… uh… Medicinal Foods
- September 27, 2010
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Consumer Products, Food, Healthcare, News, Pharmaceutical
Nestlé has announced its intention to invest $500 million to “pioneer a new industry between food and pharma” by creating a medical nutrition institute in Lausanne, Switzerland and a stand-alone subsidiary called Nestlé Health Science SA. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Nestlé’s chairman, said that Nestlé is aiming to use the new business unit, and associated nutrition institute,
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Chocolate: The New Heart Medicine
- August 21, 2010
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Consumer Products, Healthcare, News
A study, published online this week and reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association, finds that chocolate protects women from heart failure. The nine-year study, conducted among 31,823 Swedish women, looked at the relationship between the amount of high-quality (70% cocoa) dark chocolate the eaten and the risk of heart