Sentences with phrase «studies on dark chocolate»

Studies on dark chocolate consumption confirm they may help reduce blood pressure, insulin resistance and heart disease.

Not exact matches

While this study is great news for confirmed chocoholics like me, there are a couple of cautions to share before you go out and stock up on your favorite brand of dark chocolate.

A study found that people are more turned on by the sensation of dark chocolate melting in their mouths than by kissing.

In this study, biomarkers related to cardiovascular health and glucose metabolism showed beneficial effects on health while consuming polyphenol rich dark chocolate.

«I'm not suggesting that dark chocolate is now some therapeutic medicine,» says Jeffrey B. Blumberg of Tufts University, who collaborated on the Italian study.

When she is not working on her blog or writing books, Emily can be found studying at university, conversing with birds on the street, gobbling down dark chocolate and green smoothies, lifting weights, practicing yoga, and jamming to records.

[15] One study has shown that consumption of dark chocolate improved performance on cognitive tests which included the abstract reasoning test, the scanning and tracking test, the working memory test, the visual - spatial memory test, and the organization test.

A study was done on Italian men and found that Italian men that ate an ounce of dark chocolate had healthier lab markers.

In what may be my favorite study ever done on cortisol, subjects who had 40 grams (1.5 ounces) of dark chocolate per day, for two weeks, showed lowered urine cortisol levels.

In fact, one study found that drinking hot cocoa rich in flavanols (read: dark hot chocolate) boosted blood flow to parts of the brain for up to three hours, improving alertness and performance on simple calculations.

In the first study to examine the effects of dark chocolate on various types of stomach bacteria, researchers at Louisiana State University recently discovered that the healthy, «good» microbes in the gut — such as bifidobacterium and lactic acid — feast on dark chocolate, producing anti-inflammatory compounds as a result.

In one 2012 study out of San Diego State University, people who ate about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate (with 70 percent cocoa) daily for two weeks had lower levels of bad cholesterol and higher good cholesterol than those who nibbled on white chocolate, which contains zero cocoa.

The new study not only reveals this as being a myth but sheds additional light on why chocolate consumption (especially dark, organic chocolate) may be beneficial in both the prevention and treatment of type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes.

In the study, researchers looked at the effects of eating 1.4 ounces (40 grams) of dark chocolate every day for two weeks on blood and urine measures of stress in 30 healthy adults.

Nevertheless, further studies are needed to examine the effects of dark chocolate on feelings of fullness.

Most studies on chocolate use the dark variety.

The National Institutes of Health cites a scientific study where 26 overweight women actually reduced both body weight and fat mass after an 18 week program of ingesting dark chocolate and sweet snacks on a daily basis, in conjunction with a low calorie diet!