Steve wrote:
How much chocolate do you need to eat per day to get the benefits?
I buy 100gram Lindt 85% bars. They have 10 squares, 10grams each. If I
have 1 square, will that do me any good?

Why not have some plain cocoa powder instead and avoid the sugar and
fat? I like it on cereal and in curries and stews. Now that I think of
it, I ought to try it in salad dressing.

Steve wrote:
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"trigonometry1972@gmail.com |" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> wrote:

On Apr 12, 8:43 am, Steve <nom...@msn.com> wrote:
How much chocolate do you need to eat per day to get the benefits?

I buy 100gram Lindt 85% bars. They have 10 squares, 10grams each. If I
have 1 square, will that do me any good?

Thanks.

Steve
Let me dwell on the negative for you. Even 85% of
chocolate is 15% add sugar. Further, this is a roasted
food that is certainly load with AGEs. And finally
the caffiene and the related methyl xanthines shorten
the life span of your bones osteoblasts so therefore
would tend to added to aging related bone thinnning.
All these points will be especially bad if you are
becoming insulin resistant and on the road
to type 2 diabetes.

The press praises this product just a little too much
for me to even trust it is a good idea and that
assumes you choose truly good chocolate.

If Jane Brody says jump left, I say tackle her.

Trig

What if I eat cocoa powder instead?

Steve

You can get raw organic supplied by Navitas. I usually order this and
sweeten with stevia:
http://www.amazon.com/Navitas-Naturals-Chocolate-Organic-16-Ounce/dp/B000P24HJ8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1208220485&sr=1-1

Or you can try this or something similar:
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Cocoa-Bean-Extract

Marshall Price wrote:
Steve wrote:
How much chocolate do you need to eat per day to get the benefits?
I buy 100gram Lindt 85% bars. They have 10 squares, 10grams each. If I
have 1 square, will that do me any good?
Why not have some plain cocoa powder instead and avoid the sugar and
fat? I like it on cereal and in curries and stews. Now that I think of
it, I ought to try it in salad dressing.


I buy raw organic fair trade cocoa - not proceed with the dutch process
- and sweeten it up with stevia. I get about 1/2 oz in the morning
mixed in about 12 oz of water which I have heated up to 125 degrees.

No sugar, three times the fiber of regular dutch processed cocoa, and
all the goodness still there.

  Why not have some plain cocoa powder instead and avoid the sugar and
fat?  I like it on cereal and in curries and stews.  Now that I think of
it, I ought to try it in salad dressing.

Pramesh Rutaji wrote:
Marshall Price wrote:
Steve wrote:
How much chocolate do you need to eat per day to get the benefits?
I buy 100gram Lindt 85% bars. They have 10 squares, 10grams each. If
I have 1 square, will that do me any good?
Why not have some plain cocoa powder instead and avoid the sugar and
fat? I like it on cereal and in curries and stews. Now that I think
of it, I ought to try it in salad dressing.


I buy raw organic fair trade cocoa - not proceed with the dutch
process - and sweeten it up with stevia. I get about 1/2 oz in the
morning mixed in about 12 oz of water which I have heated up to 125
degrees.

No sugar, three times the fiber of regular dutch processed cocoa, and
all the goodness still there.

How does it taste? Much more bitter than ordinary lye-treated cocoa?
Edible, nonetheless? (If I recall correctly, the taste of bitterness
is often caused by alkali. Strange, that treating cocoa with lye should
make it less bitter.)

Perhaps it could be stirred into healthier oils than highly saturated
ones.

I imagine it must be quite expensive.

I've heard of some people making their own chocolate with coconut oil
and stevia to sweeten and keeping it in the fridge.  I haven't tried that.