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"Eat organic dark chocolate. Sjaaks Organic Chocolates www.sjaaks.com (707) 775-2434 Chocolate Alchemy www.chocolatealchemy.com Natures First Law www.naturesfirstlaw.com (800) 205-2350 Sweet Earth Chocolates www.sweetearthchocolates.com (805) 544-7759 Dagoba chocolate www.worldwidechocolate.com (800) 664-9410 Amazon Herbs www.amazonherb.net (800) 835-0850 15. Take an omega-3 supplement. Omega-3s www.icelandhealth.com Nordic Naturals Omega 3 fish oils www.nordicnaturals.com (800) 662-2544 Carlson Labs Norwegian and Omega 3 oils www.carlsonlabs.com (888) 234-5656 Dr." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Premenstrual chocolate craving is a phenomenon that has puzzled many physicians. They have been unable to explain why some women have this overwhelming urge to eat lots of chocolate right before their periods, yet at other times of the month the women's chocolate cravings are not as strong. The PMS-chocolate connection makes a lot of sense because chocolate is very high in magnesium. Keeping a balance of calcium and magnesium is critical for optimal physical functioning and for hormone balance." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"But many people interpret that as a craving for chocolate, which contains magnesium. So they will eat a giant piece of chocolate instead of just getting calcium and magnesium into their body through natural food sources. There's nothing wrong with chocolate if it were eaten in its raw form from the cocoa plant. But the chocolate most people consume is made with saturated dairy fats in the form of milk fat. That's why it's called "milk chocolate." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Cravings for Ice Cream and Chocolate: "This year Pranic Healing helped me to get rid of my addiction to ice cream and chocolate. I used to eat ice cream and chocolate every day and lots of it. I can still eat ice cream and chocolate, but I do not crave it and I can go days or "forever" without eating either again. This was two months ago and the cravings have not come back. All the free chocolate that is available for me every day at work is no longer a problem for me." Bumps, Bruises, and Pain (Children): "I use Pranic Healing on my son almost every day." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"Chocolate cravings may be due partly to chocolate's high magnesium content, but chocolate candy is not the best choice to solve that problem because of its fat and sugar. If you must have chocolate, try unsweetened cocoa powder mixed into yogurt or a blender drink. If you feel up to trying an alternative that gets you away from chocolate completely, chilies contain magnesium (they're Ayurveda's top chocolate-craving remedy), and chilies also increase endorphins, which can be helpful with moodiness. Amenorrhea Amenorrhea is the absence of menses." - Robyn Landis, Herbal Defense (Get the book.)

"I don't really consider this type of chocolate, candy. Check out Dagoba Organic Chocolates. One kind of Dagoba chocolate is called "Eclipse 87% Extra Dark" and is very low in sugar. Find it at your health food store or log on to: www.dagobachocolate.com. 10. If your body is saying "I need something crunchy," try Mary's Gone Crackers.These are crispy crackers with a great taste. They are wheat free, gluten free, with no added oils or fats and no hydrogenated or trans-fatty acids (bad oils). They can be found in four different flavors; organic rice, quinoa, flax seed, and sesame seed." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Instead of some big chocolate dessert, try strawberries dipped in dark chocolate (which has less sugar than the milk chocolate variety) . A few of these and you're satisfied, but in truth you've had a relatively small amount of chocolate and quite a bit more fruit. We also told people to slice bananas, freeze them, and then dip the slices in a sugar-free chocolate sauce. It satisfies any sweet tooth, again, with a small amount of chocolate." - Arthur Agatston, M.D., The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Not so among the Aztecs and othet Mesoamericans: our sources unanimously declare that the drinking of chocolate was confined to the Aztec elite—to the royal house, to the lords and nobility, to the long-distance merchants, and to the watriors. The only commoners who had a chance to try this luxury seem to have been soldiers on the march. Priests are not mentioned as consumers, and almost surely they were not, for they were expected to lead lives of high austerity and penance." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"It's what the chocolate has in it that makes it bad for the body. Organic dark chocolate is the only kind I will eat and only if it's a least 85% pure organic dark chocolate with a very low amount of natural sugar. Make sure you check both the percentage of dark chocolate and the amount of natural sugar before you purchase that yummy reward for being good after eating your vegetables. This is not something you want to eat right away when fighting cancer. Wait until you have no cravings for sugar." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Chapter Four Encounter and Transformation It was thanks to Christopher Columbus that Europeans first set eyes on the seed of the chocolate tree. Exonerated by the Reyes Catolicos (the "Catholic Monarchs," Ferdinand and Isabella) from the unjust charges and imprisonment with which his third great voyage had ignominiously ended, the Admiral of the Ocean Sea was determined to make one more exploratory trip to the New World which he had "discovered." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"For chocolate lovers, try cocoa or some chocolate extract to give that chocolate flavor—or try good quality organic chocolate!" - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"Chocolate cravings may be due partly to chocolate's high magnesium content, but chocolate candy is not the best choice to solve that problem because of its fat and sugar. If you must have chocolate, try unsweetened cocoa powder mixed into yogurt or a blender drink. If you feel up to trying an alternative that gets you away from chocolate completely, chilies contain magnesium (they're Ayurveda's top chocolate-craving remedy), and chilies also increase endorphins, which can be helpful with moodiness. Amenorrhea Amenorrhea is the absence of menses." - Robyn Landis, Herbal Defense (Get the book.)

"For chocolate lovers, try cocoa or some chocolate extract to give that chocolate flavor—or try good quality organic chocolate!" - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"The best way to consume cocoa is to add plain cocoa powder—preferably non-Dutched cocoa; Dutched cocoa is treated with an alkali during processing—into chili or other Southwestern recipes, thus avoiding the sugar in chocolate bars. If you eat chocolate, make sure it's dark or extra dark chocolate with 60 to 80 percent cocoa solids and that it has low sugar content.) Small red beans, kidney beans, and black beans are also packed with antioxidants. Antioxidants can also be found in supplement and vitamin form." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"There's nothing wrong with chocolate if it were eaten in its raw form from the cocoa plant. But the chocolate most people consume is made with saturated dairy fats in the form of milk fat. That's why it's called "milk chocolate." It's also loaded with refined white sugars, which turn an ordinary piece of healthy chocolate from the rain forest into a candy bar that promotes both heart disease and diabetes. Good nutrition makes exercise easier Another way in which outstanding nutrition aids in weight loss is by giving you the energy and motivation to engage in physical exercise." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"But if you look at the charts, cornflakes have a high GI (86-92), while a popular chocolate and peanut candy bar has a low GI (41-43). Plain boiled carrots rank very high (about 92), while a chocolate cake with frosting ranks low (38) (see www.glycemicindex.com). Does this mean you should bypass the boiled carrots and corn- flakes and munch on candy bars and chocolate cake with frosting? Of course not! However, a strict interpretation of the GI charts suggests that is what you should do." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"When Hernandez gives us his recipe for what he claims is aphrodisiac chocolate, he appends to it a recipe approved of as being cooling, refreshing, sweet, and fattening, and having no untoward side-effects. One took equal parts of roasted cacao beans, and the heart of the seed of the sapote (Pouteria sapota), ground them both, and added some ground maize, mixing and beating in the approved Mesoamerican manner. This, Hernandez specifies, is what is called chocolatl—an intriguing piece of evidence in the convoluted puzzle of this word's origin (see Chapter Four)." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"So please don't use this as an excuse to stock up on chocolate bars and kisses! Your chocolate candy does not have the same composition as it does when it's raw. The raw version still has many nutrients and minerals in their natural composition. Your cooked candy bar does not. There actually is very little cacao in processed chocolate. Raw chocolate also contains naturally occurring tryptophan—an essential amino acid—which helps naturally produce serotonin in your body. This is great news for those who need an emotional boost." - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"Cake, with chocolate frosting 3-2 2.0 1 piece Candies, chocolate-coated cookie bar 6.9 4.0 1 bar Chicken bouillon cubes 3-9 0.2 1 cube Cookie bar, chocolate-coated, with caramel 6.9 4.0 1 bar Cookies, chocolate chip 6.5 0.7 1 cookie Cookies, vanilla sandwich 7-i 0.7 1 cookie Cookies, chocolate sandwich with cream filling 5.6 0.6 1 cookie Crackers, cheese 74 2.0 1 serv. bag Crackers, cheese sandwich with peanut butter filling 3.0 0.4 Va ounce Crackers, regular, snack-type 7.2 0.6 2 crackers Crackers, saltine, regular 2.3 0." - Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki, The Okinawa Program : How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health (Get the book.)

"Instead, the Americans handed out chocolate and biscuits to them. "When I tasted that chocolate," she'd said, her eyes welling up, "I knew my children would live." She'd looked down and sobbed silently, then looked up again. "I've waited all my life to thank someone for that. So now I thank you." Now, seeing her again at Ushi's house, I remembered feeling a strong sense of embarrassment and pride at hearing Setzu's story. As an American, I was loosely connected to both the cause of her suffering and her salvation." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Eat. . . chocolate? Dark chocolate has, in recent years, been found to be an excellent source of antioxidants—and may even directly lower blood pressure! Indulge with moderation, since it's the rare occasion when you'll consume chocolate without any sugar to temper its bitterness. THE CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM The recommendations in the multivitamin/mineral program in Chapter 2 are likely to cover you on many of these fronts if you take statins or antihypertensive drugs." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Solid chocolate and Syrup Dark chocolate, semisweet (1 oz.) 5-35 20 Milk chocolate (1 oz.) 1-15 5 Bakers chocolate (1 oz.) 26 26 Chocolate syrup (1 oz.) 4 4 Coffee-flavored low-fat yogurt 45 45 * Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration and M. L. Bunker & M. McWilliams, "Caffeine Content of Common Beverages,"/oMrna/ of the American Dietetic Association, Vol. 74, pages 28-32, January 1979. When you eliminate or greatly reduce the caffeine in your diet, you may experience mild withdrawal symptoms, such as headaches, because caffeine is a mild drug." - Gayle Reichler, M.S., R.D., C.D.N., Active Wellness - A Personalized 10 Step Program for a Healthy Body, Mind & Spirit (Get the book.)

"Here we offered candles and chocolate to feed the spirit of this magnificent high peak. I make my own small pilgrimages up the mountain to Snake Falls. On a flat rock above the falls is an opening where I place beads, candles, food, chocolate, and handmade gifts. This is one way I feed the most formidable teacher I have ever had, the spirit of Marble Mountain. Another small way of feeding spirit is by offering tobacco or cornmeal, which is a traditional Native American practice." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"There actually is very little cacao in processed chocolate. Raw chocolate also contains naturally occurring tryptophan—an essential amino acid—which helps naturally produce serotonin in your body. This is great news for those who need an emotional boost. You can buy raw chocolate in the shell (it is a seed), but it's easiest if you buy it without. Since the cacao bean is actually fairly bitter, it is best to mix it with various other superfoods—pumpkin seeds, goji berries—for a super, power-packed, nutrient-rich dry snack that will get you through even the toughest days." - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"The Mars Corporation recently endowed a chair in chocolate science at the University of California at Davis, where research on the antioxidant properties of cacao is making breakthroughs, so it shouldn't be long before we see chocolate bars bearing FDA-approved health claims. (When we do, nutritionism will surely have entered its baroque phase.) Fortunately for everyone playing this game, scientists can find an antioxidant in just about any plant-based food they choose to study." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"But the chocolate most people consume is made with saturated dairy fats in the form of milk fat. That's why it's called "milk chocolate." It's also loaded with refined white sugars, which turn an ordinary piece of healthy chocolate from the rain forest into a candy bar that promotes both heart disease and diabetes. Good nutrition makes exercise easier Another way in which outstanding nutrition aids in weight loss is by giving you the energy and motivation to engage in physical exercise." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"When I tell people to cut out sugar, I like to add the three magic words "except for chocolate"! I consider chocolate to be a healthy food. To have your cake and eat it too (so to speak), consider sugar-free chocolates. Some are awful but others are spectacular. Russell Stover has a whole line of sugar-free chocolates that are outstanding. There are many healthy sugar substitutes. Stevia is excellent, healthy, and easy to use. The bes: tasting brands of stevia I've found are from Body Ecology and Stevita (see Appendix B or vitalitylOl .com). Many others are bitter." - Jacob Teitelbaum, Pain Free 1-2-3: A Proven Program for Eliminating Chronic Pain Now (Get the book.)

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