Nutrition: Chocolate Milk May Reduce Inflammation

NY Times ^ | November 10, 2009 | RONI CARYN RABIN

[neverdem]

Move over, red wine. Make room for chocolate milk. A new study suggests that regular consumption of skim milk with flavonoid-rich cocoa may reduce inflammation, potentially slowing or preventing development of atherosclerosis. Researchers noted, however, that the effect was not as pronounced as that seen with red wine.

Scientists in Barcelona, Spain, recruited 47 volunteers ages 55 and older who were at risk for heart disease. Half were given 20-gram sachets of soluble cocoa powder to drink with skim milk twice a day, while the rest drank plain skim milk. After one month, the groups were switched.

Blood tests found that after participants drank chocolate milk twice a day for four weeks, they had significantly lower levels of several inflammatory biomarkers, though some markers of cellular inflammation remained unchanged...

[neverdem]

Effect of cocoa powder on the modulation of inflammatory biomarkers in patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease

[A. Morgan]

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[billorites]

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[BigBlueJon]

Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine!

[hope]

Well, I’m a natural cocoa lover,I know the benefits of it.. but there’s nothing better for inflamation than high potency omega 3 fatty acids. Like Natures Way, Fisol, Fish oil caps. You won’t have a high cholesterol reading ever as long as you do the reg. dosage..Also Red Yeast Rice in combination if you are suffering high cholesterol readings...Any good potency at your local health food store will do..But, with FISOL time release fish oil...you won’t be disapointed..Any natural product you choose expect 2 weeks of dosage for your system to see the difference.And, no I'm not a dealer!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Drank a lot of Nestle's Quick as a kid, Some Ovaltine, Maybe Bosco a few times. Sometimes used these to wash down Hostess cupcakes or Suzie Q's. Had a lot of dental work over the years. Go figure.

[skinkinthegrass]

Chocolate Milk May Reduce Inflammation

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[SatinDoll]

Well, I think I’ll have a couple more glasses of Pinot Noir. I try to avoid chocolate, though lordy! I do love it so.

Chocolate ALWAYS makes me break out in acne and boils. After those studies were done in the 1970s stating that chocolate didn’t cause acne and pimples, I went out, bought chocolate, and feasted. Within 48 hours I broke out in pimples all over my face, neck, chest and upper back. That was harsh lesson - you can’t always believe studies promoted by industry.

[poodle]

I don’t drink fake milk with all its dead mutations, mainly because of what is being said in relation to coronary heart disease. Either way it is still dead and without enzymes, not that I expect anyone to be into raw food. The thing about chocolate is somehow there is a high contamination with lead.

This is how they are trying to explain it, like they cannot stop using leaded gasoline- http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1166899/lead_contamination_in_chocolate.html?cat=5 If you read on it is still does not explain the level of 9 times higher than in the beans.

Yep, there all kinds of stories from the people that give us arsenic in chicken saying it is for disease and just happens to make them gain wieght faster and people that let mercury go into the hfcs supply, which is incredible when you think about it in a poison in a poison kind of way. I guess it all proves that industrial waste in the water that is euphanized as fluoride really does work in destroying IQ and making people docile.

[grey_whiskers]

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[grey_whiskers]

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[Squantos]

Stuck with two buck chuck.......blood work is good !!!