Sentences with phrase «studies on chocolate»

Most studies on chocolate use the dark variety.

All the positive scientific studies on chocolate refer to the nutritional powers of the raw cacao, and not the one of the refined chocolate that we often buy.

(More studies on chocolate and cardiovascular health can be found here, here, and here.

All the positive scientific studies on chocolate refer to the nutritional powers of the raw cacao, and not the one of the refined chocolate that we often buy.

Let's get a fair and balanced study on chocolate milk in the cafeteria and then we can talk!

Not exact matches

A study on waiters and tipping published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology demonstrates how even tiny gifts can make a big difference, finding that: «Customers who received a small piece of chocolate along with [their] check tipped more than did customers who received no candy.»

In a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research that examined the impact of mental stress on food choices, a majority of the participants selected an unhealthy food (chocolate cake) over a healthy food (fruit) after completing a complicated memorization task.

But that's also why dog poisonings by chocolate hit their highest mark on during the holiday season, as noted by a new study by U.K. researchers.

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.

While Small's study was partially sponsored by the candymaker Mars Inc. (additional sponsors included the National Institutes of Health and two research foundations) the takeaway, sadly, isn't that gorging oneself on chocolate bars is the secret to a better memory.

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

Nutritionist Marion Nestle, whose voice we always listen for on these matters, warns that this study still does not prove that eating chocolate causes better health outcomes, only that it's been associated with them.

As a result of my study stresses I've been making this chocolate mousse on a weekly basis.

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

If caffeine is the concern for these experts behind the Adelaide study, which obviously it is, then they should be calling for more regulations on the caffeine levels in coffee and chocolate to carry warning statements on packs — «not suitable for teenagers».

By: Ed BruskeA little sugar with that calcium?A landmark study on calcium and vitamin D nutrition recently published by the Institute of Medicine poses a serious challenge to a dairy industry campaign to sell chocolate milk to the nation's school children, finding that only girls aged 9 to... Read more

In order to better understand the potential impact that removing chocolate milk has on milk sales and intake, the relevant research questions were studied in two phases.

On January 7th, I wrote about a press release promoting an unpublished University of Maryland (UMD) study that recommended a chocolate milk drink to help high school football players recover from concussions.

I also applaud superintendent Tom Leonard for listening to the three students and agreeing to the trial of serving chocolate milk on Fridays and running a research study.

A landmark study on calcium and vitamin D nutrition recently published by the Institute of Medicine poses a serious challenge to a dairy industry campaign to sell chocolate milk to the nation's school children, finding that only girls aged 9 to 18 might need more calcium and only by an amount contained in a half - serving of calcium - fortified cereal.

The SNA has announced it plans to hold a «webinar» on the study Aug. 25 to examine findings from a sample of schools that purport to show that milk consumption dropped an average 35 percent when chocolate and other flavored milks were removed and students were offered only plain milk.

Without reading the actual study, I can not comment on its methods, but I'm willing to hazard a guess that the investigators designed the study — consciously or unconsciously — to favor consumption of chocolate milk.

But NYU professor and performance artist Karen Finley, who famously pissed off Jesse Helms by smearing chocolate on her nude body, is sure to effectively blow everyone away at tonight's sixth annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association at NYU.

«The world's demand for chocolate has been very hard on the endangered primates of Ivory Coast,» said W. Scott McGraw, co-author of the study and professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University.

So it can be more specifically the study of plants that people use for food, for clothing, for medicine, for construction, for ceremony, for decoration — any useful plant you might talk about and I've specifically focused on the medicinal plants and the edible plants and with my research on chocolate, I guess, the psychoactive plants too, you could say.

«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.

This is based on a study conducted by the Archives of Internal Medicine which followed the effect of chocolate and exercising on 1.000 subjects.

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.

The study examined effects of fat - free chocolate milk consumption on kinetic and cellular markers of protein turnover, muscle glycogen, and performance during recovery from endurance exercise.

Several studies [3, 4] have found that chocolate consumption reduces risk of dementia and enhances performance on tests of cognitive function.

Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips.

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.

Studies have also shown that chocolate has beneficial effects on cholesterol and may reduce your risk of heart attacks and strokes (54, 55, 56).

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.

The investigators had hypothesized that because chocolate appears to have a positive effect on blood pressure, chocolate consumption would lower the risk of strokes and heart attacks and that is, in fact, what the study found.

In the study they let the patients walk on a treadmill, without eating chocolate and after eating chocolate.

Saturated fats are often believed to have a negative impact on cardiovascular health, but cacao's saturated fat content is entirely different because stearic acid is a particular fatty acid in that it does not elevate blood cholesterol levels the way other saturated fats can and studies have found that diets containing cocoa and chocolate have a neutral effect on blood cholesterol levels in humans.

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!

The study authors concluded, «We provide a more complete picture of the impact of chocolate consumption in vascular health and show that increasing flavanol content has no added beneficial effect on vascular health... However, this increased flavanol content clearly affected taste and thereby the motivation to eat these chocolates.

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

Although these studies have been done on low - fat chocolate milk there is no reason to believe whole chocolate milk will not have the same, or better effects.

For that matter, studies show that regular consumption of soy has a positive impact on health whereas if it blocked antioxidant activity (apart from the phytonutrients in tea and perhaps chocolate) the opposite would be the case.

Secondly, a small study in 2010 showed that acne got significantly worse when volunteers were allowed to binge on chocolate.