Chocolate lovers have fewer strokes.
Having a sweet tooth for chocolate may not necessarily be bad for your health, hints a new study.
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Chocolate is as good for you as exercise
Chocolate is as good as exercise.
Scientists found that small amounts of dark chocolate may improve health in a similar way to exercise.
Speculators’ New Craze For Chocolate Leaves A Bitter Taste
Be aware that chocolate inflation is about to hit home.
First they ruined the property market, and then they fouled up the banks and building societies, before wrecking the high street. Now hedge funds and other financial speculators are threatening the good order of the chocolate market. Cocoa prices have reached their highest levels for 33 years, increasing 150 per cent in the last 18 months, and financial speculators are being accused of inflating prices to make a financial profit. Cocoa crop failure in the Ivory Coast, the world’s top grower, is partly the cause, but some experts are blaming the London commodity market where cocoa is traded…
What Is The True Cost of Chocolate?
Fair at what price?
The modern chocolate industry has a long history marred by slavery and deforestation. From the birth of the industry with the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs to the modern industry centered in West Africa the problems have remained constant. Organic, fair trade chocolate has become more prevalent over the past couple of years, but one company has taken their commitment to creating an ecologically and socially sustainable product to the next level.
Pioneering chocolate company Original Beans has based their business model on true cost pricing, including often overlooked ecological and social costs. “The mental inspiration comes from the challenge of building a business that results in more than zero sum, and actually gives back more to the Earth than it takes,” says company co-founder Philipp Kauffmann.With a marketplace used to cheap food, pricing a product based on what it actually costs to maintain a sustainable industry can seem outrageous. A 3.5oz bar from Original Beans costs the consumer $13. I’ll admit sticker shock when I first heard that price as well, but once Kauffmann explained what goes on behind the scenes at Original Beans I was sold on paying the true environmental and social cost for my chocolate.
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Whipped Cocoa Bath
With a cherry on top you could be a chocolate sundae
The Whipped Cocoa Bath is an additive created in 2004 for when times get tense and rough. It presents a scented escape from the mundane and stressful, and when added to a spa (bath) it produces the visual and sensual effects of sitting in a large cocoa bathtub. Continue reading… “Whipped Cocoa Bath”
21 Extreme Chocolate Products
Chocolate sushi – A rare delicacy only for the most extreme chocolate addict
Okay, some of these are totally weird. Chocolate sushi is made up of real maki, other sushi ingredients and natural chocolate to wrap the sushi up. Several more after the jump.
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150 Women Wanted – – To Eat Chocolate for a Year
Testing the health benefits of eating chocolate. Oh the humanity!
Scientists in the UK are seeking 150 women to eat chocolate every day for a year in the cause of medical research.
The trial, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, eastern England, will test whether a natural compound found in cocoa, the main ingredient of chocolate, could cut the risk of heart disease among women with diabetes.
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