Found the quote! Chocolate is a vegetable

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Everyone’s Favorite Vegetable*

Many health professionals, including myself and Love, MD, author

of “ Love’s Menopause and Hormone Book,” consider chocolate a

vegetable. After all, it is made from the cocoa bean, which provides

dietary fiber and is full of antioxidants that keep cells healthy.

Chocolate contains a significant amount of the mineral magnesium, which

assists in blood glucose management, helps stabilize moods, provides

quality sleep and is necessary for the health of our bones and heart.

Compared with milk or white chocolate, dark chocolate provides the

greatest benefit because it contains the most cocoa butter. Read labels

carefully to choose chocolates that have “cocoa,” “cocoa mass,” and

“cocoa butter” as the leading ingredient and the least amount of sugar

and other additives.

From: http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read,2003,4511.html

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el (andreafrankel at sbcglobal dot net)

" wake now! Discover that YOU are the song that the morning brings... "

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I personally have been eating more dark chocolate as it they are VERY rich

in Polyphenols and they give me cognitive benefits.

Regards

CS

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O.K.! You found it! Wonderful!

Rich

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> Everyone's Favorite Vegetable*

>

> Many health professionals, including myself and Love, MD,

author

> of " Love's Menopause and Hormone Book, " consider chocolate a

> vegetable. After all, it is made from the cocoa bean, which

provides

> dietary fiber and is full of antioxidants that keep cells healthy.

> Chocolate contains a significant amount of the mineral magnesium,

which

> assists in blood glucose management, helps stabilize moods,

provides

> quality sleep and is necessary for the health of our bones and

heart.

> Compared with milk or white chocolate, dark chocolate provides the

> greatest benefit because it contains the most cocoa butter. Read

labels

> carefully to choose chocolates that have " cocoa, " " cocoa mass, "

and

> " cocoa butter " as the leading ingredient and the least amount of

sugar

> and other additives.

>

> From: http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read,2003,4511.html

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> el (andreafrankel at sbcglobal dot net)

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> " wake now! Discover that YOU are the song that the morning

brings... "

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bhammanuk@... wrote:

> I personally have been eating more dark chocolate as it they are VERY

> rich

> in Polyphenols and they give me cognitive benefits.

>

Same here! Also acts as a natural anti-depressant.

I have become addicted to Dagoba's organic dark chocolate with chiles

and cocoa nibs. I forget the name - starts with an X. Chiles means

more antioxidants and more endorphins!

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el (andreafrankel at sbcglobal dot net)

" wake now! Discover that YOU are the song that the morning brings... "

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However i have only started to increasing Polyphenols as I have raised

Glutathione.

Regards

CS

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Once you have got most of toxins out you should be able to re introduce alot

of foods back

Reagrds

CS

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are chiles deadly nightshades, though? some people think deadly

nightshades are best avoided...

> > I personally have been eating more dark chocolate as it they are

VERY

> > rich

> > in Polyphenols and they give me cognitive benefits.

> >

>

> Same here! Also acts as a natural anti-depressant.

>

> I have become addicted to Dagoba's organic dark chocolate with

chiles

> and cocoa nibs. I forget the name - starts with an X. Chiles

means

> more antioxidants and more endorphins!

>

>

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>

>

> el (andreafrankel at sbcglobal dot net)

>

> " wake now! Discover that YOU are the song that the morning

brings... "

>

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shakerz25 wrote:

> are chiles deadly nightshades, though? some people think deadly

> nightshades are best avoided...

>

The nightshade family includes tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, and a plant

called " deadly nightshade " . People in Europe wouldn't eat tomatoes for

many decades after they were brought over from the Americas, because

they assumed (wrongly) that any relative of the deadly nightshade plant

would also be deadly.

There are indeed some people whose arthritis is bothered by anything in

that family. For most people, there is no problem. And tomatoes and

peppers are very nutritious.

I rely on NAET to test whether I am compatible with a particular food,

rather than making assumptions and ruling out whole categories of food,

and chiles are no problem for me. It's a YMMV thing.

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el (andreafrankel at sbcglobal dot net)

" wake now! Discover that YOU are the song that the morning brings... "

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I do all of that ie tea, olive oil, dark chocolate, berries and any other

polyphenol rich foods.

I have a little update in my own situation - ill be posting shortly.

Regards

CS

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I use scharffen-berger cocoa powder without any sugar, and sometimes I

buy their unsweetened chocolate bars which have a tiny bit of sugar. I

melt butter, stir it into the cocoa. If you wanted it sweet but are on

a low sugar diet you could add stevia.

Every morning I eat my soft boiled organic eggs, decaff green tea, and

my chocolate mix. Without chocolate I would not survive. It has lots

of catecholamines, precursors to epinephrine and norepinephrine. I

feel its protective along with being antidepressant. Someday science

will prove us right.

> > I personally have been eating more dark chocolate as it they are VERY

> > rich

> > in Polyphenols and they give me cognitive benefits.

> >

>

> Same here! Also acts as a natural anti-depressant.

>

> I have become addicted to Dagoba's organic dark chocolate with chiles

> and cocoa nibs. I forget the name - starts with an X. Chiles means

> more antioxidants and more endorphins!

>

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> el (andreafrankel at sbcglobal dot net)

>

> " wake now! Discover that YOU are the song that the morning brings... "

>

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Hi there,

A friend of my sister who is psych consultant for the elderly ( and has

had depressive problems herself) recommends chocolate for depression -

she should know. Whenever I'm feeling really grotty ME-wise -

especially if my cns is playing up more than usual I have some chocolate

- brilliant stuff!! Really does work wonders.

Rosie

> > I personally have been eating more dark chocolate as it they are

VERY

> > rich

> > in Polyphenols and they give me cognitive benefits.

> >

>

> Same here! Also acts as a natural anti-depressant.

>

> I have become addicted to Dagoba's organic dark chocolate with chiles

> and cocoa nibs. I forget the name - starts with an X. Chiles means

> more antioxidants and more endorphins!

>

>

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>

> el (andreafrankel at sbcglobal dot net)

>

> " wake now! Discover that YOU are the song that the morning brings... "

>

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