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Health: Specific_Substances: Chocolate:
See also:
- Business: Food and Related Products: Confectionery: Chocolate (50)
- Recreation: Food: Confectionery: Chocolate (34)
- Shopping: Food: Confectionery: Chocolate (263)
- Discovering the Sweet Mysteries of Chocolate - Summary of available information about history, cravings, and effects on the nervous system. Links to references..
- International Journal of Medical Sciences: Flavanols in cocoa - Report on studies providing clinical evidences that flavanol may enhance brain blood flow, improve cognitive health and offer other benefits..
- The Science of Chocolate - Information about history, cravings, and affects on the brain..
- The Sweet Lure of Chocolate - Information about cacao, history, production, and health effects. Includes bibliography and links to related material. Provided by the Exporatorium, a science museum in San Francisco..
- Forbes.com: Chocolate Does A Man's Heart Good - Report on a study showing that chocolate may improve the cardiovascular health of men. (December 20, 2005).
- Earthtimes.org: Chocolate -- God’s Gift to Mankind? Maybe! - Article outlines the health effects of flavanols contained in cocoa beans, and how the Mars chocolate company is trying to incorporate their benefits in a new brand of chocolate bars. (August 20, 2005).
- Ivanhoe's Medical Breakthroughs - Chocolate for Your Health - A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that dark chocolate, rich in anti-oxidant compounds known as flavonoids, reduced blood pressure in people with hypertension. (July 19, 2005).
- Chocolate 'Fights' Tooth Decay - A study by researchers at Osaka University in Japan found that parts of the cocoa bean thwart mouth bacteria and tooth decay. Reported by BBC News. (August 24, 2000).
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