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For The Body

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The Health Benefits of Chocolate
Who thought that chocolate would be healthy? There are constant studies being done all over the world that says just that. Dark Chocolate contains flavanoids that help blood vessels work more smoothly, perhaps reducing the risk of heart disease. Chocolate also acts as a powerful antioxidant, reducing dangerous free radicals at a higher rate than vitamin C or green tea.

For the Body...
• With chocolate, higher cocoa content equals more flavonoids. Thus, dark chocolate has the ability to act as a powerful antioxidant.

• All-natural foods, like Endangered Species Chocolate products, reduce the amount of toxic chemicals, food additives and colorings ingested. All-natural products contain no genetically modified organisms and increase the amount of beneficial vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and antioxidants consumed.

• In addition, researchers coupled studies of platelet function in humans with in vitro studies with highly purified flavonols from cocoa. The results of these studies support that cocoa flavonols may have beneficial effects on platelets and that certain flavonols and flavonol-rich cocoa itself may also reduce the cascade of events that can lead to vascular damage.