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CCHHOOCCOOLLAATTEE FFOORR HHEEAALLTTHH
TTHHEE AAMMAAZZIINNGG IINNGGRREEDDIIEENNTTSS &&
BBEENNEEFFIITTSS OOFF
CCHHOOCCOOLLAATTEE
by Russ Michael
Russ Michael is a best-selling author
of more than 30 BLOCKBUSTER self-help books
Visit www.RussMichaeleBooks.com
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CHOCOLATE For HEALTH The Amazing Ingredients & Benefits of CHOCOLATE
© 2008 by Russ Michael. All rights remain in force.
Removing this notice forfeits all rights to recourse.
Copyright strictly enforced © 2008 by Russ Michael Front Cover Art: A highly talented volunteer Russ Michael eBook Team artist who prefers to remain anonymous created the beautiful front cover art for this book and for most of the other Russ Michael eBooks. The artist states:
“I just have to say this. Because of this immense ef-fort that I have been putting forth, it has kept me co-herent, sane and remaining in the light. It has kept me happy, moving forward in creative endeavors, and most of all, ALIVE. Thank you, dear Michael, for your giving freely to all that have ‘ears to hear, and eyes to see” of yourself, and that you are fulfilling the reasons that you came back into this life at 18 years old. Whenever you embark on ANY journey, you do it in a BIG way … and that is incredible. A wonderful example to ALL …”
Edited by Pamela Leach
email: [email protected] TEL: 616-642-0308
Published by: Russ Michael Books P.O. Box 654 Virginia Beach, VA 23451 USA
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Dedication
For the Love of Chocolate
Dedicated with love and gratitude to
each and every one of my companion ar-
dent chocolate lovers on Earth.
May your family, friends and everyone
you know be pleased and uplifted to dis-
cover you are a bearer of such wonderful
good news about the factual high nutri-
tional value of CHOCOLATE.
Bless us all.
Ed Robertson says, “Finally a real ‘save the
Earth’ motivation:
Save the Earth;
It's the only planet with chocolate.”
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MEDICAL DISCLAIMER
LEGAL NOTICE: The Author specifi-
cally invokes the First Amendment
rights of freedom of speech and of the
press in this book without prejudice.
All information given in this book is pre-
sented for educational and research pur-
poses only under the rights guaranteed by
the First Amendment of the Constitution
for the United States of America, and
should not in any way be used as a substi-
tute for the advice of a physician or other
licensed health care practitioner. The
statements contained herein have not been
evaluated by the FDA. The products dis-
cussed herein are not intended to diagnose,
cure, prevent or treat any disease. In no
way should this information be considered
to be a substitute for competent health care
by a professional of your choice. If you use
this information without your doctor's ap-
proval, you are simply prescribing for your-
self, which is your constitutional right.
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Table of Contents
Preface by Author ................................................... ix
1 Are You A CHOCOLATE Queen or
A CHOCOLATE King–Like Me .................... 1
2 The World Is Full of CHOCOLATE Lovers .... 5
3 Who Can Resist Tasty, Sweet, Mouth-
Watering Quality CHOCOLATE .................. 10
4 Look Out! Heating Foods is Known to
Destroy Nutrient Value .................................. 18
5 The Soothing Sedative and Calming
Value of CHOCOLATE ................................... 20
6 Beware of Inferior CHOCOLATE Bars
or CHOCOLATE Drink Products .................. 24
7 CHOCOLATE Lovers UNITE ........................ 26
8 ORAC, HORAC or NORAC Scientific
Nutrient Value Gauge .................................. 36
9 Common Foods With a High ORAC
Value ................................................................ 40
10 CHOCOLATE Has the Highest ORAC
Nutrient Value ................................................ 42
11 What Doctors Say About CHOCOLATE ...... 44
12 Historical Known Medical Uses of
CHOCOLATE .................................................. 50
13 Are Deadly Cancer Cells Fearful of
CHOCOLATE? ................................................ 54
14 The Many Health Benefits of
CHOCOLATE .................................................. 58
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15 CHOCOLATE and a Happy, Healthy
Heart .............................................................. 60
16 CHOCOLATE Discovered To Lower
Blood Pressure ............................................. 68
17 Can CHOCOLATE Help Diabetics
Feel Better? ..................................................... 70
18 Does Eating CHOCOLATE Daily Help
` You LOSE WEIGHT? .................................... 74
19 CHOCOLATE & Age Reversal .................... 78
20 Where and What Does CHOCOLATE
Come From? .................................................... 80
21 The Divine CHOCOLATE Bean ..................... 82
22 Medical Values of Pure High-Grade
CHOCOLATE .................................................. 84
23 The Ultra Value of Cold-Pressed
CHOCOLATE .................................................. 88
24 The Fun of Eating CHOCOLATE .................. 92
25 CHOCOLATE Is Big Business Worldwide .... 94
26 From Home Kitchen to More Than 300
Million CHOCOLATE Sales in 5 Years ......... 98
27 CHOCOLATE Health Drinks Beat Out
Other Drinks in ORAC Value Greatly ......... 100
28 Guideline to Shopping For Highest
Quality CHOCOLATE .................................. 104
29 Your Body Deserves the Best Quality
CHOCOLATE ................................................ 106
30 Join Me In Spreading the ‘GOOD WORD’
About Our So Lovable CHOCOLATE ........ 110
APPENDIX:
Alarming Facts About the FDA ................. 113
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Tax Facts Taxing Facts Relative to Our
Health and Personal Well Being .................. 113
Recommended High Vibration Books and
Study Data .............................................................. 118
What People Are Saying ........................................ 122
More Offerings by Russ Michael ............................ 136
Final Note from the Author Scribe ........................ 143
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Preface by Author
Tell me now, who does not like choco-late? Since somewhere between six and seven billion people live on Earth today, it is probably no exaggeration to say that there are a billion of us lucky enough to live the good life and who really and pas-sionately love chocolate.
Note: To love chocolate is a quantum leap greater than to merely like choco-late. People who merely like chocolate perhaps account for yet another billion or more chocolate buyers, nibblers and munchers on our Earth.
Let's face it, some chocolate buyers and eaters may have not yet reached the maturity, the more refined vibratory evo-lutionary stage, where they have learned to love chocolate.
All in all, this still accounts for bil-lions of chocolate nibblers, tasters, munchers or occasional imbibers who enjoy getting their taste buds “high” or who satisfy their craving for sweets with a daily dose or more of sweet-tasting, mouth-watering chocolate.
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Since you are reading a book titled CHOCOLATE for Health, it is a good guess that you may even BE the family-acclaimed chocolate Queen or a famed chocolate King or even, like me, a proud “chocoholic.”
If so, I am sure you will enjoy learning why and how chocolate not only tastes good, but is also one of the most nutri-tious and healthiest foods. Chocolate’s many benefits revealed here were tested under laboratory and clinical conditions by reliable, concerned human health re-searchers and health specialists.
Three cheers for chocolate! Bless us all.
I am, Russ Michael
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Chapter 1
Are You a CHOCOLATE Queen or CHOCOLATE King
Like Me?
ome folks have gone past the stage of liking or loving chocolate. As noted, many have been fun-heartedly identified by family,
friends, work associates and everyone else close enough to know them as genu-ine chocolate Queens or Kings, or even as chocoholics.
Yes, I too confess–I am one!
Are you one? If so–don't be shy, con-fess it, admit it. Be proud to be what you are!
It is no crime against yourself or hu-manity to be a chocolate lover or a real-life long-reigning chocolate Queen or King, or even a chocoholic!
In fact, pull yourself and your spirits up to your full height. Here is why:
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You personally have chosen what has been tested and found to be one of the top nutritional foods on Earth, the choco-late we love!
So do not let anyone bully or badger you out of enjoying your occasional or daily treat of ultra-healthy, luscious high-grade chocolate bars or highly nutritious chocolate health drink.
Stand your ground. Once you read this book, you will know far more factu-ally than any chocolate critic!
Let any uninformed chocolate detrac-
tors know the leading-edge nutritional
facts about the extraordinary nutritional
value of chocolate. Let them know “the
good news” that you can now happily
share as a well-informed chocolate lover.
Chocolate has recently been widely tested at prestigious universities and by doctors and health specialists in reputa-ble and reliable laboratories. It’s official. Chocolate, especially raw dark chocolate, is a highly nutritious and top-rated health food.
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The facts speak for themselves. You might want to study and memorize some of the results of recent studies about chocolate that are included in this book. Chocolate is more healthful than anyone could have imagined or dreamed.
Give thanks! The facts are in. Search the Internet–the only remaining true worldwide source where truth about nu-tritional facts can be found, not just those bought, paid for and published by dark corporate profit interests.
We chocoholics and chocolate lovers ought to be wearing a gold medal or a “badge of honor” instead of being accused of overdoing our daily natural taste for sweets and often “gorging” on chocolate treats. At some intuitive or inner physical gut level, we knew–probably at first taste–that since chocolate tasted so incredibly good it had to be good for us. Yes, choco-late definitely is that–and much, much more!
Chocolate is good for body, heart, mind and soul.
Therefore, unenlightened chocolate detractors beware! When you open your
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mouth to be critical, you are better off putting a sweet piece of dark raw choco-late into it instead of your own big foot. (Grin)
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Chapter 2
The World is full of Chocolate Lovers
et's come back to my initial ques-tion. Who does not love chocolate?
Chocolate will soothe and tantalize our craving for something sweet like nothing else except, perhaps, honey–another tasty and natural ultra-healthy food.
Ed Robertson, of Virginia Beach, Vir-ginia–whom I know for a fact is a long-reigning, self-admitted chocolate King–is quick to share his so very well stated, long-lived credo with us. Ed smilingly states the equation that he loves to share with his many friends: “PIECE of choco-late = PEACE of mind!”
Over the years of a long friendship, be assured that Ed and I have enjoyed many wild, ravishing, adventurous chocolate party binges. Many included chocolate ice cream, chocolate cheesecake, chocolate mousse, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate
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bars and other newly discovered choco-late treats. As you must know, it feels good to feast on chocolate treats with someone who shares your avid love of chocolate.
Ed Robertson and I are fully matched chocoholics, so it really does not matter who takes the lead and who follows. When it comes to either one of us having a need for a “chocolate fix,” we both know we can count on the other faithful, time-tested connoisseur of chocolate to join in any sudden new chocolate feast with equal passion and zest.
Did you know that in the USA, each person eats and drinks an average of 12 pounds of chocolate per year?
Imagine the total volume of chocolate consumed worldwide.
Who could contest the fact that the world is full of chocolate lovers!
Since you were drawn to read these pages, my guess would be that you are also one of the myriad of us who are out in the open, transparent, self-admitted chocoholics! Most of us are humbly proud to admit it.
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By the time you finish reading this book, you will know and appreciate even more deeply and fully why chocolate has been enjoyed and loved for thousands of years in almost every civilized place on Earth.
Hats off to self-certified, self-chosen, self-confessed, genuine chocolate lovers.
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Chapter 3
Who Can Resist Tasty, Sweet, Mouth-Watering Qual-
ity CHOCOLATE
erhaps, instead of asking who can resist the sweet mouth-watering taste of chocolate, I should re-phrase the question: “Who in their
heart does not love chocolate?”
DECISIONS–DECISIONS–DECISIONS
There are literally two parties involved in making our 3-D body, mind and soul, decisions; our mind and our heart.
THE MIND
The mind thinks it knows best, yet it never does. Your mind, in ignorance, may stubbornly try to talk you out of the sweet pleasure of enjoying a daily choco-late treat like a tasty chocolate bar, a steaming hot chocolate drink or a newly discovered chocolate dessert special.
As you may have already observed and know, the mind listens to what others say
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or think. It really does not walk in the same shoes as your physical human body and heart does. My suggestion is to ig-nore it.
Your mind, if not already well disci-plined, will argue that everyone around you is in full-step agreement with it. Your mind simply does not know the truth. Your mind is often managed by a ruth-less, self-serving ego that cares nothing about the truth, and without conscience, will consciously lie in order to have its own determined way.
Remember, you are NOT your mind. It was gifted to you as a tool, not to be your master. A mind is a wonderful, powerful and faithful personal servant when well trained.
Without factual evidence to prove it, your ego-backed mind will “rain on your parade.” Your mind will declare with a self-satisfied smirk that chocolate is fat-tening. If you are not listening, or choos-ing to ignore it, your mind will kick and scream that your pure natural craving for a delectable piece of chocolate is an abso-lute “no-no!”
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Let's face it. Unless well trained and highly disciplined, our minds want to be our bosses. Even when we staunchly ig-nore our minds and shamelessly indulge in our daily chocolate cravings, our dis-gruntled minds leap up and try to talk each and all of us out of the sweet, sen-tient joy that we feel with every sip or bite of heart-warming chocolate
THE HEART
Your heart knows better. The mind thinks but the heart knows. A whole di-mension or an entire world of difference is involved in the outcome for you.
Your knowing, loving heart knows and follows that innermost divine cardinal rule of life that is ingrained in your DNA or cellular genetics–”what feels good is good.”
This rule, imprinted in our genes and our DNA, was already known by all of us before our bodily birth. This rule is worth repeating and holding before us at all times: “What feels good is good.”
Your heart knows that your body, my body, and the body, mind and soul of any chocolate lover lives and grows naturally,
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by following or acting upon what triggers it into feeling good.
Let's face the truth.
Feeling “bad” is a real downer while feeling good naturally uplifts our body, mind and soul. I can hear my quick-witted chocolate buddy Ed Robertson spring up to say, “Chocolate is good for the spirits.”
The heart is no fool like the ego mind. The spark of your ‘I Am’ life within your heart knows what it knew before it was birthed in a human body. It knows that if chocolate makes your body feel good–if it uplifts your body, mind and spirit–chocolate is good.
Most of my book readers know already that most new words are sourced or de-rived from other known and used words, and a specific word can be a simple or clearly obvious ”corruption” of another word.
In light of this, it's obvious that the word GOOD is a “corruption” of the word GOD. It is why the phrase “God is good and good is GOD” is an absolute truth that holds throughout all Creation.
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God is not “bad.” God is good!
What feels good and tastes good is good. What feels good–under any and all occasions–translates to a personal feeling of more of GOD Source being merged or embodied in our ‘I Am’ self identity at a sentient or sensual human, animal or even plant level.
You know how good dogs or cats feel when you pet them. You transmit your love to them through your hands and through the caring, loving tone of your voice.
Even live plants tested in laboratories, wired with sensors by scientists, show that plants, like all other life forms, can and do feel bad or good.
A plant measurably expands with vi-tality. It grows and flourishes when a lab technician or scientist sends a loving, caring stream of thought or genuinely felt appreciation toward it.
However, that same happy, healthful plant will cringe, contract and grow sickly, when exposed to thoughts of hate or simply exposed to harsh music such as hard rock or heavy metal. In addition,
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that distressed plant will wither and die if exposed too long to continual bursts or steady streams of any kind of negative vibrations.
Now then, back to our grand angelic humanly embodied kingdom on Earth. The heart within all chocolate lovers worldwide knows that chocolate is good. Why? Simply because every taste of chocolate brings such an irresistible, ul-tra-high vibratory and pleasing taste sen-sation that instantly communicates a wave of good feeling to all of our body cells and senses.
So rise up! Take charge of your body and your humanly embodied life-stream. Be kind always, but be firm and tell your mind to “take a flying leap.”
With conscious effort and in due time, your mind can be trained to be an in-stant, powerful and faithful servant of your body for Well Being on all human and divine fronts.
Meanwhile, until your mind is mature and responsible, trust your heart.
Your heart knows what is good for you. By nature, your heart knows that
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Chapter 4
Look Out! Heating Foods Is Known To Destroy Nutrient Value
ealth research tests have shown raw cacao powder delivers around seven times the amount of healthful antioxidants to your
body than cooked cacao powder. This amounts to approximately a 723 percent increase in nutritional benefit.
If you are not familiar with the fact that heat-processed foods rob your body of most of the essential vitamins and minerals it needs, take or make the time to search the internet for information about it.
I especially recommend the book Raw Food Family, a delightful true story of how the Boutenko family of four lost a great amount of excessive weight and re-covered from all of their ills. They were all restored to a natural extraordinary health of body, mind and soul by staying on a
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daily regime of raw foods only. Contact Victoria, the dear mother of the super-healthful Boutenko raw food family at [email protected]
Now that you are equipped with this knowledge, you are fully prepared to un-derstand why and how cold-processed chocolate lives up to the claims of being the highest rated ORAC tested foods known on Earth today.
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Chapter 5
The Soothing Sedative and Calming Value of
CHOCOLATE
he praises and now well-known, well-proven, time-tested health values of chocolate are surfacing in health research circles more and
more each day. Among all these heart-warming revelations is the now emerging wonderful good news that chocolate has a known sedative effect that soothes and calms our body and mind.
Professor Gordon Parker, a psychia-trist and the director of the Black Dog In-stitute in Sydney, states that chocolate can activate the same chemical reactions as various anti-depressant drugs.
He compares snacking on a bit of chocolate, which aids his patients to calm their stress or anxiety, to moving them-selves voluntarily into the category of treating themselves with a natural form of self-medication.
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Biologists have noted that when you eat chocolate there are two easily seen body chemistry or chemical related ef-fects.
Chocolate triggers the body to release the mentally and emotionally uplifting hormones known as endorphins. “These endorphins provide us all with a comfort-ing, good feeling sensation,” says Doctor Parker.
Chocolate falls in the category or list of foods that the body naturally and wisely craves because it is a food rich in a substance called L-tryptophan.
L-tryptophan helps increase higher levels of the calming agent serotonin in the brain.
Nature knows how to do it best!
Eating and basking one's whole being in the delectable lingering taste of choco-late is nature's own self-therapy for our sacred, priceless sentient human bodies.
Dr. Parker says he has learned from studying his patients that many of them crave chocolate when feeling stressed or jittery. Thus by giving in and satisfying
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that craving, they naturally fulfill their hearts inner desire for a more relaxed and stress-free state through the almost in-stant natural calming effect of a “choco-late fix.”
So be it.
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Chapter 6
Beware of Inferior Chocolate Bars or Drink Products
hat exactly is an inferior choco-late bar or an inferior chocolate drink?
Indeed our own being can and does tell us on the spot whether something tastes good or not to our own sense of taste. An inferior tasting chocolate bar or drink sends its own specific message to our body and brain. We do not need to be rocket scientists to figure out which brands of chocolate tastes superior.
However, I am directing your attention specifically to other more vital telltale fac-tors that chocolate lovers ought to know.
In terms of health and nutritional value factors, a chocolate bar or drink can be measured from three major per-spectives.
FIRST: What percentage of high qual-ity chocolate is in each serving?
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SECOND: Was the chocolate cold-pressed or heated when processed by the manufacturer?
THIRD: What kind of natural–or un-natural–additives (if any) are in it?
We will probe into these factors, and their importance to the health of con-sumers and lovers of chocolate in the fol-lowing chapters.
Bless us all.
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Chapter 7
CHOCOLATE Lovers UNITE
lease, if you are a chocolate lover and you value high standard chocolate, read and evaluate every statement and word published in
this book. When standards are lowered, the manufacturers and sales distributors automatically gain a much higher income at your and my personal expense. The warning flag is up!
When enough of us learn about any conspiracy to lower the standards of chocolate or any health product or envi-ronmental standard, we must unite as one powerful body standing together for truth. By doing so, we become an un-stoppable, invincible force that can and will maintain our rights to make our own well-informed sovereign choices about any natural food of our choice on Earth.
The following article was published in the The Virginian-Pilot on August 12, 2007:
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Would You Eat Chocolate Made with Vegetable Oil?
By Andrew Bridges, The Associated Press
LIKE MANY BATTLES, this one is being
fought block by block. Victory, for whomever
prevails, will be sweet or bitter–or even bitter-
sweet.
It all depends on how you like your choco-
late.
At stake is the very definition of chocolate,
and whether cheaper vegetable oils can be
substituted for what many consider the very
quintessence of every block, bar and square
of chocolate: cocoa butter.
In Europe, the cocoa butter vs. vegetable
oil fight took 30 years to resolve. In the United
States, it’s been less than a year since the
first volley. Hundreds of ‘chocoholics’ have
joined the fray, the outcome of which could in
turn affect the livelihoods of millions of cocoa
farmers in Africa and South America.
It all began in October, when a dozen in-
dustry groups filed a petition with the Food
and Drug Administration seeking to amend the
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standards that guide how nearly 300 foods
can be produced, from canned cherries to
evaporated milk.
Broadly speaking, the so-called standards
of identity are intended to ensure listed prod-
ucts contain the right amount of key ingredi-
ents and are both properly made and not
deceptively packaged. For example, chocolate
in its purest state–the “liquor” made from
ground, processed cacao beans –must con-
tain between 50 percent and 60 percent cocoa
butter, also known as cocoa fat.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association,
Chocolate Manufacturers Association and 10
other food industry groups want more flexibil-
ity in those rigid standards. They seek broad
permission to add ingredients, use different
techniques, employ new shapes and substi-
tute ingredients–something the standards cur-
rently don’t allow.
The petitioners say it’s all about moderniz-
ing antiquated standards that now can take
years to change.
“If you’re trying to innovate, the process is
not amenable to introducing change in a rea-
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sonable amount of time. It’s not efficient,” said
Regina Hildwine, the Grocery Manufacturers
Association’s senior director of food labeling
and standards.
Opponents of the change say it’s out of
step with the times.
“It’s a real philosophical thing, just about
the foods we eat. There is such a focus on
people’s wanting to know what’s in the foods
they eat, how they’re grown, where they come
from–this seems to fly against the direction of
the way things are moving,” said Gary Guit-
tard, the president of California’s Guittard
Chocolate Co. and a leader of the opposition.
The broadly written petition skimps on the
details but includes an appendix that lists ex-
amples of proposed changes. Tucked be-
tween requests to allow antifungals on bulk
cheese and powdered milk in yogurt is what
has people riled up the most: a proposal that
would let manufacturers “use a vegetable fat
in place of another vegetable fat named in the
standard (e.g. cacao fat).”
Manufacturers already can use vegetable
fats instead of cocoa butter–they just can’t call
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it “chocolate.” Hundreds of people have filed
comments with the FDA, with the overwhelm-
ing majority seeking to keep it that way, ac-
cording to an Associated Press review of the
file.
“It is a passionate debate. You don’t get
that about yogurt. People feel very protective
about their chocolate,” said Beth Kimmerle,
author of Chocolate: The Sweet History.
The FDA has yet to completely analyze
the petition.
“Greater flexibility is one of the goals of our
modernization. However, we always have to
look at whether it results in a food that retains
the basic nature of the food, retain the essen-
tial character of the food and is something that
consumers expect. So that would be very dif-
ficult to do in a very short time,” said Gerald-
ine June, a supervisor in the regulations and
review team of the agency’s food labeling and
standards staff.
For centuries, if not millennia, chocolate
has been made from the cacao bean, with co-
coa butter as an essential ingredient. That in-
gredient is the essence of the taste, texture
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and “mouth feel” of chocolate, according to
Jay King, president of the Retail Confectioners
International, an industry group.
Allowing chocolate in the United States to
be made with vegetable oils could have an
“extraordinary and unfortunate impact” on
those millions, Steven J. Laning, an executive
with Archer Daniels Midland Co.’s cocoa divi-
sion, wrote to the FDA.
But the shift would make chocolate
cheaper to produce, since cocoa butter can be
at least four times the cost of shea, palm oil
and other vegetable fats.
The petition comes as scientists find evi-
dence that suggests chocolate–when eaten in
moderation–can lower blood pressure, among
its other health benefits.
Chocolate makers have capitalized on
those findings and trotted out products they
tout as healthful, especially dark chocolates
high in flavanols, antioxidants found in cacao
beans.
“It just seems to position chocolate in a
murky field, especially now with all this great
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news about its health benefits coming into the
light,” Kimmerle said. “It feels like a better time
to get clearer about standards.”
Jeff Chiu of The Associated Press
writes:
Industry groups filed a petition with the
Food and Drug Administration seeking to
amend the standards that guide the produc-
tion of chocolate. The proposal would let
manufacturers “use a vegetable fat in place of
another vegetable fat named in the standard
(e.g. cacao fat).” Manufacturers already can
use vegetable fats instead of cocoa butter–
they just can’t call it chocolate.
Ed Robertson–a life-long trusted,
highly regarded, greatly respected friend
of this author writes:
“Yes! I AM fully supportive of Saving
Chocolate!! Save the Whales, Save the Envi-
ronment, Save Health Care, save ‘fill in the
blank’, all worthy goals, but SAVE
CHOCOLATE!! Tops the lists of priorities!!!
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CHOCOLATE LOVERS UNITE!!!
Eat more chocolate now!! Tell chocolate
makers that we will continue to eat chocolate
as long as they use cocoa butter and their cof-
fers will overflow!! Then they will know how
much money they will lose when we stop eat-
ing chocolate if they put in any other type oil
(rapeseed being the most unforgivable)! This
will be a strong voice to the makers!
I am doing my part now by upping my
chocolate intake by going to the Heritage
Store and buying a box full of Fair Trade
chocolate and eating it as my way of lending
my voice to this issue!!
If you agree with the goal, but do not want
to eat the extra volume of chocolate, please
purchase a large supply and send it TO ME!! I
will see that it is properly used! (Address
available on request from publisher or author.)
Don't worry about any extra pounds I may
put on because if the chocolate makers get
foolish and change the oil, I will be going on a
Hunger Strike and will need the extra pounds
at that point.
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Cocoa butter reigns supreme!!
Bless chocolate and bless us all!
Brother Ed
Hopefully like me, you will stand
alongside other Ed Robertson, and other
chocolate and freedom lovers worldwide
to let our positions be known to the FDA
or any dark-hearted and usually uncon-
stitutional government agency that would
willfully seek to lower our life standards.
We will let them know we are a force to be
reckoned with because we stand for Crea-
tor God Source's light of knowledge and
truth on Earth and the freewill of 'we the
people' will be done.
So be it.
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Chapter 8
ORAC–NORAC– or HORAC
Scientific Nutrient Value Gauge
ere is the meaning of the follow-
ing acronyms:
ORAC: Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity
HORAC: Hydroxyl Radical Absorbance Ca-
pacity
NORAC: Nitric Oxide Radical Absorbance
Capacity
The ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorb-
ance Capacity) measures the antioxidant
level of protection any product has via the
latest scientific testing method developed
by Tufts University, located in Boston.
Oxidative stress has been shown to
accelerate the aging process in our cells
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and blood vessels. Scientists report that
this oxidative stress also increases the
risk of falling prey to coronary heart dis-
ease, certain forms of cancers and many
other health ills.
ORAC antioxidant laboratory analysis
confirms that there are over 25,200 anti-
oxidants in a single spoonful of raw
chocolate powder!
If a food has a high ORAC score, then
it means the food is high in antioxidants.
These published tests show the health
benefits of dark chocolate and cocoa.
An average serving of fruits and vege-
tables measured about 500 ORAC units.
Compare that to one brand of choco-
late mix drink that measured a whopping
21,000+ ORAC units per one daily serv-
ing.
The USDA and Harvard School of Pub-
lic Health claim we need to consume at
least five servings of vegetables and fruits
to be healthy enough to ward off diseases,
especially those related to aging.Isn't it
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obviously really good news to know you
can obtain up to eight times as many
healthful ORAC units from one serving of
a chocolate drink?
Certainly, if you or your children are
not eating the recommended five servings
of fruits and vegetables per day, then
treating yourself and your children to
healthy chocolate drinks or other health-
ful chocolate desserts makes good sense
to me.
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Chapter 9
Common Foods With a High ORAC Value
ere is a recently compiled sliding
scale list of common fruits, leg-
umes or vegetables and the ORAC
value per gram measured in each
of them.
Cucumber 1.15
Tomato 4.00
Cashew nuts 7.19
White potato 11.00
Apple 22.10 to 42.75
Peanut 31.66
Milk chocolate 71.30
Medjool dates 85.78
Prune 85.78
Cranberry 92.60
Wild blueberry 92.60
Watermelon 95.00
Small red kidney bean 49.00
Pecan nuts 179.40
Acai berry 1027.00
Cocoa baking chocolate 1032.00
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Obviously then, chocolate, according
to these scientific measurements, is now
rated as our most nutritious known food.
Do I hear an avalanche of cheers sounding
out all over the world?
Isn't this priceless information to
know and pass along to your friends and
to any critics of your wonderful and en-
dearing love of chocolate?
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Chapter 10
CHOCOLATE Has the Highest ORAC Value
ikipedia, a free on-line free ency-
clopedia, again chocolate is
listed as having the highest Oxy-
gen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC).
To quote, “Cocoa has a high ORAC value,
giving baking chocolate a value of 1032
and milk chocolate an average of 71.30.”
In his book ORAC Value of Herbs, Ray
Sahelian, M.D., reveals that the ORAC
value of a serving of 100 grams of dark
chocolate is 9000 ORAC units.
Researchers also report, and it is
worth emphasizing, that dark chocolate
has twice as much ORAC value as milk
chocolate. So if you are really, really
health-minded, reach for the dark choco-
late bars or dark chocolate drink mixes
that are at least 53 percent cacao.
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Chapter 11
What Doctors Say About CHOCOLATE
GOOGLED headlines and quotes!
www.Google.com
Instead of: “An apple a day” make it “A choco-
late a day.”
“Chocolate every day will keep the doctor
away.”
“Chocolate is good for you,” doctors say.
“A small bar of dark chocolate is about equiva-
lent to an apple or a few glasses of red wine.
Milk chocolate has a lower amount of
flavenoids, and white chocolate has none.”
“Cocoa acts like low-dose aspirin,” U.S. re-
searchers report.
“Eating Chocolate Is Healthy, Doctors Say,”
By Patricia Reaney.
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CHOCOLATE CANCER CURE
“An ingredient found in chocolate
seems to exert its anti-cancer proper-
ties, findings that might be used one
day to design novel cancer treat-
ments.”
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Chapter 12
Known Historical Medical Uses of CHOCOLATE
ocoa residues were recently identi-
fied in a 2600-year-old Mayan pot
found in Belize. This was a find
that pushed back humankind's known
love affair with chocolate by at least 1000
years.
Throughout its long history, chocolate
has been consumed not just for its taste,
but as a medicine to treat a range of con-
ditions from anemia to tuberculosis.
Wouldn't you know it!
Culturing and eating of cocoa beans
was restricted to the elite of Mayan soci-
ety and normally served as an unsweet-
ened cocoa drink.
The Aztecs and Mayans used cacao
bean powder in a royalty chocolate drink
known as Xocolati.
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(The following information and quotes
were all found on the internet using
Google.)
QUOTE from the Department of Nutri-
tion, University of California, Davis, CA
USA:
The word cacao is derived from Olmec
and the subsequent Mayan language (kakaw);
the chocolate-related term cacahuatl is Na-
huatl (Aztec language), derived from Ol-
mec/Mayan etymology.
Historical researchers state the cul-
ture and medical use of cacao or choco-
late, either as a primary vehicle or a
secondary vehicle to deliver other medical
formulations started in the New World
and wound up in Europe in the middle
1500s.
Tracking of this data indicates the use
of chocolate with the Olmec, followed by
the Maya and Aztec civilizations.
QUOTE:
The Badianus Codex (1552) noted the use
of cacao flowers to treat fatigue, whereas the
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Florentine Codex (1590) offered a prescription
of cacao beans, maize and the herb tla-
coxochitl (Calliandra anomala) to alleviate fe-
ver and panting of breath and to treat the faint
of heart. Subsequent 16th to early 20th cen-
tury manuscripts produced in Europe and New
Spain revealed more than 100 medicinal uses
for cacao/chocolate. Three consistent roles
can be identified: 1) to treat emaciated pa-
tients to gain weight; 2) to stimulate nervous
systems of apathetic, exhausted or feeble pa-
tients; and 3) to improve digestion and elimi-
nation where cacao/chocolate countered the
effects of stagnant or weak stomachs, stimu-
lated kidneys and improved bowel function.
Additional medical complaints treated with
chocolate/cacao have included anemia, poor
appetite, mental fatigue, poor breast milk pro-
duction, consumption/tuberculosis, fever,
gout, kidney stones, reduced longevity and
poor sexual appetite/ low virility. Chocolate
paste was a medium used to administer drugs
and to counter the taste of bitter pharmacol-
ogical additives. In addition to cacao beans,
preparations of cacao bark, oil (cacao butter),
leaves and flowers have been used to treat
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burns, bowel dysfunction, cuts and skin irrita-
tions.
QUOTE:
Currently, 54 percent of young people in a
US survey designated chocolate as being ‘un-
healthy,’ although they also described it as
awesome, calming, dangerous, delectable,
erotic, heavenly, intoxicating, irresistible, mys-
terious, satiating, sexy, sinful, sticky and tran-
quilizing.
One Californian Chocolate Research
team argues: “Chocolate is more than the
sum of its interesting phytochemicals. It
is more than a beverage or a confection.
To taste chocolate is to share in a com-
mon connection through history, from
antiquity to the present, from the frothy
cacao beverages prepared at the court of
King Montezuma, to the era of the mod-
ern chocolate bar.”
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Chapter 13
Are Deadly Cancer Cells Fearful of CHOCOLATE?
fast answer is to ask another per-
tinent question: is chocolate acid
or alkaline?
All cancer cells know that an alkaline en-
vironment is deadly to them. Yes indeed!
You can bet your bottom dollar that
chocolate is alkaline–so any enlightened
well-informed cancer cell would be deadly
fearful of being anywhere near a good
mouthful or even a tiny taste of delicious
chocolate
Many decades ago, Dr. Otto Warburg
proved beyond a doubt that cancer cells
exposed to high states of oxygen could
not live in such a highly alkaline envi-
ronment. When cancer tumors were in-
jected with pure oxygen all the cancer
cells died off and were quickly replaced
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by normal healthy body cells in that or-
gan or limb.
Leading edge alternative health re-
searchers have known for some time now
that cancer cells thrive in an acid envi-
ronment and will die off rapidly in an al-
kaline base environment.
I would highly recommend Dr. Theo-
dore A. Brody's book, Alkalize or Die,
which was first published in 1991 and
has probably gone through a dozen edi-
tions by now, as a wonderful source of
well-researched information on this sub-
ject.
The good news is that cold-pressed
(unprocessed) cocoa powder or chocolate
is extremely alkaline. Therefore, you can
be sure that cancer cells do not want to
be around anyone eating or drinking any
good tasting, quality dark chocolate.
A QUOTE WORTH REPEATING
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CHOCOLATE CANCER CURE
“An ingredient found in chocolate seems to
exert its anti-cancer properties: findings that
might be used one day to design novel cancer
treatments.”
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Chapter 14
The Many Health Benefits of CHOCOLATE
ew research from Germany adds to mounting evidence linking dark chocolate with health benefits, but it's the first to suggest that just a
tiny amount may suffice.
The facts are in. All the new alterna-tive medical health research has proven chocolate is a decisive top quality health food.
Very recent studies reported in pres-tigious medical journals acclaim what many uphold and believe to be the best medical news in ages–dark chocolate is healthy.
The facts are found with very little re-search. Search engines (I prefer Google) are a fast track to documented facts about almost anything today. Yes, of course, there are many paid misinforma-tion postings, but all in all far more truth can be found on the internet than
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through the CORPORATE PHARM and ONE WORLD CORPORATION that has a death-grip control over major mass media outlets today where outright lies, disin-formation, misinformation, non-information, terror and violence is the main-meal course–with trimmings–each day!
Dark, unprocessed, very alkaline chocolate is reported to be loaded with a host of beneficial health values.
One publicly posted report states:
“Eating 2 ounces (50 grams) a day of plain
chocolate with a minimum content of 70%
chocolate solids can be beneficial to health,
providing protection against heart disease,
high blood pressure, and many other health
hazards as well as essential trace elements
and nutrients such as iron, calcium and potas-
sium, and vitamins A. B, C, D and E, and it's a
lot tastier than boring old vitamin pills, too.”
In fact, “A 1-1/2-ounce square of chocolate may have as many cancer-fighting antioxidants as a five-ounce glass of red wine.”
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In addition to cacao beans, prepara-tions of cacao bark, oil (cacao butter), leaves and flowers have been used to treat burns, bowel dysfunction, cuts and skin irritations.
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Chapter 15
CHOCOLATE and a Happy, Healthy Heart
QUOTE:
On the heart front, chocolate, a plant-
based food, is rich in substances called fla-
vonoids, which can act as anti-oxidants, help-
ing the body's cells resist damage from free
radicals.
University of Cologne researcher Dr. Dirk
Taubert, the study's lead author, said the
blood pressure reductions with dark chocolate
were small but still substantial enough to po-
tentially reduce cardiovascular disease risks,
Chocolate also contains cocoa butter,
which has fatty acids that, like those in olive
oil, may protect the heart. Although studies
have not yet confirmed that chocolate is as
effective as red wine in reducing risk of car-
diovascular disease, it is clear that a 40-gram
serving of dark chocolate has the same poly-
phenol content as a 5-ounce glass of red
wine. A 40-gram milk chocolate candy bar
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contains more than 300 milligrams of poly-
phenols–about the same amount as five serv-
ings of fruits and vegetables.
About 50 percent of all food cravings are
for chocolate, far more than cravings for
“something sweet” (16 percent), salty foods
(12 percent), baked goods (11 percent) and
fruit (4 percent). Some people go so far as to
say they are addicted to chocolate. But that's
no license to go on a chocolate binge. Eating
more dark chocolate can help lower blood
pressure. Remember, you do have to balance
the extra calories by eating less of other
things.
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Chapter 16
CHOCOLATE Discovered To Lower Blood
Pressure
ests suggested that steady exposure to dark chocolate prompted chemi-cal changes that helped dilate blood
vessels and regulate blood pressure, the researchers said.
Here are some of the captions a Google search brought up:
“CHOCOLATE LOWERS BLOOD
PRESSURE”
“Dark Chocolate is Healthy Chocolate”
“SMALL AMOUNT OF DARK
CHOCOLATE MAY LOWER BLOOD
PRESSURE”
“Dark chocolate seems to lower blood
pressure, but it requires an amount less than
two Hershey’s Kisses to do it, about 30 calo-
ries’ worth, a small study suggests. The re-
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search is the first to suggest a tiny amount of
chocolate can make a difference. “
Reporting on a test conducted in Ger-
many, Lindsey Tanner of The Associated
Press states:
Volunteers for the German study ate just
more than 6 grams of dark chocolate or white
chocolate daily for almost five months.
Average blood pressure at the start was
about 147 over 86. Systolic blood pressure,
the top number, fell an average of nearly 3
points, and diastolic dropped almost 2 points
in the dark chocolate group, compared with no
change in the white chocolate group.
University of Cologne researcher Dr. Dirk
Taubert, the study’s lead author, said the
blood pressure reductions were small but still
substantial enough to potentially reduce car-
diovascular disease risks, although study vol-
unteers weren’t followed long enough to
measure that effect.
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Cocoa contains flavanols, plant based
compounds that also are credited with giving
red wine its heart-healthy benefits.
Dark chocolate has ingredients that lower
blood pressure and fight disease. Eating more
dark chocolate can help lower blood pressure.
Chocolate Lowers Blood Pressure, Dark
Chocolate, Other Cocoa-Rich Foods May
Lower Blood Pressure Better Than Tea, by
Jennifer Warner, Web MD Medical News Re-
viewed by Louise Chang, MD April 9, 2007.
A chocolate treat may be better than green or
black tea at keeping high blood pressure in
check.
A new study suggests that dark chocolate
and other cocoa-rich products may be better
at lowering blood pressure than tea.
Researchers compared the blood pres-
sure-lowering effects of cocoa and tea in pre-
viously published studies and found eating
cocoa-rich foods was associated with an av-
erage 4.7-point lower systolic blood pressure
(the top number in a blood pressure reading)
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and 2.8-point lower diastolic blood pressure
(the bottom number). But no such effect was
found among any of the studies on black or
green tea.
Cocoa and tea are both rich in a class of
antioxidants known as polyphenols. But re-
searchers say they contain different types of
polyphenols, and those in cocoa may be more
effective at lowering blood pressure.
Polyphenols Help Blood Pressure: Cur-
rent guidelines call for people with high blood
pressure to eat a diet rich in fruits and vegeta-
bles, which are also high in polyphenols.
These compounds are thought to contribute to
their beneficial effects on protecting against
heart disease and high blood pressure.
But researchers say there are no current
recommendations for people at risk for high
blood pressure or heart disease to include
polyphenol-rich cocoa and tea products in
their diet, despite the fact that tea and cocoa
products account for the bulk of people’s total
intake of polyphenols in Western countries.
In their review, researchers reviewed the
effects of cocoa-rich products, such as dark
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chocolate or specially formulated polyphenol-
rich milk chocolate, and blood pressure in five
studies, which totaled 173 participants and
lasted on average two weeks.
They also reviewed black and green tea
and blood pressure in five different studies
that totaled 343 participants and lasted on av-
erage four weeks. All studies were published
between 1966 and 2006.
The results showed four of the five cocoa
studies reported a reduction in both systolic
blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure.
The reduction was an average of 4.7 points
systolic and 2.8 points diastolic.
Researchers say those effects are similar
to those found using one-drug therapy with
common blood pressure-lowering medications
such as beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors.
None of the five studies on green or black
tea were associated with any significant re-
duction in blood pressure.
COCOA TO THE RESCUE
Applied to the population as a whole, re-
searchers estimate that the blood pressure-
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lowering effect associated with cocoa would
be expected to reduce the risk of stroke by
about 20 percent, coronary heart disease by
10 percent, and death from all other causes
by 8 percent.
However, they say their findings should
not be interpreted as a widespread recom-
mendation to raid the candy counter.
But they say it appears reasonable to sub-
stitute polyphenol-rich cocoa products like
dark chocolate for other high-calorie or high-
fat desserts, such as having a piece of dark
chocolate rather than a slice of cheesecake.
“We believe that any dietary advice must
account for the high sugar, fat, and calorie in-
take with most cocoa products,” writes re-
searcher Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, of the
University Hospital of Cologne in Germany.
“Rationally applied, cocoa products might be
considered part of dietary approaches to lower
hypertension risk.” SOURCE: Archives of In-
ternal Medicine, April 9, 2007; vol. 167: 626-
634. News release, Archives of Internal Medi-
cine.
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Yes indeed!
Hot Chocolate Reduces Blood Pressure
Research published in the American Medi-
cal Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine
reports “cocoa appears to have some benefit
for those with high blood pressure.” The
source of that article was a review of 10 other
studies that, in addition to cocoa, examined
five different kinds of tea, including black tea
and green tea.
In total, the results showed that while tea
did not seem to offer any benefit for blood
pressure, cocoa led to blood pressure reduc-
tions–about a 5mmHg reduction in systolic
blood pressure and a 3mmHg reduction in dia-
stolic blood pressure.
Cocoa is a recent substance of interest in
heart and high blood pressure research be-
cause it is a rich source of chemicals called
polyphenols, also known as flavonoids, which
are known to have protective effects on the
heart and circulatory system. While this study
focused on cocoa as a beverage (hot choco-
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late), solid forms of chocolate also contain
high levels of polyphenols.
The effects of polyphenols are similar to
single drug therapy with medications like beta
blockers and ACE inhibitors, according to re-
searchers, but no current dietary recommen-
dations exist for polyphenols. Vegetables are
also a rich source of polyphenol compounds.
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Chapter 17
Can CHOCOLATE Help Dia-betics Feel Better?
n 1900, diabetes had a low incidence
of 0.0028 percent per capita. This sky-
rocketed 1,000 percent in the United
States by 1933. In time, diabetes grew to
destroy the health of over 50 percent of
the American population. By 1990, diabe-
tes would incapacitate nearly 20 percent
of us living in the USA.
Now more than half of the people who
live in the USA suffer from at least one or
several symptoms of diabetes. A third of
the USA population is morbidly obese
and half of our population is greatly
overweight. Doctors report that Type 2
diabetes is appearing routinely in chil-
dren six years old or younger. We obvi-
ously need to offset the terrible suffering
of those with diabetes in every natural
healthful way possible.
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Chocolate may help diabetes patients
feel better.
Since chocolate is loaded with hun-
dreds of known and many as yet un-
known beneficial health nutrients, it
stands to reason it would help our im-
mune system bring about a more bal-
anced body state, which most likely
would control the correct release of insu-
lin in our blood stream and help lower
cholesterol in hypersensitive patients.
If you will search the internet for in-
formation, you will find many reports that
indicate eating dark chocolate can be
beneficial in helping to terminate diabetes
symptoms. A recent Italian study con-
firmed that eating 100 grams of dark
chocolate daily can decrease blood pres-
sure and also revealed that dark choco-
late may help prevent Type 2 diabetes.
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Chapter 18
Does Eating CHOCOLATE Daily
Help You LOSE WEIGHT?
at Candy & Lose Weight! What a
title for a BLOCKBUSTER best-
seller that would be. Maybe in due
time I will take or make the time
to write that book (grin). Naturally, we are
not talking about any old kind of fatten-
ing candy. We are talking about tasty,
healthful, sweet natural chocolate bars
and, more specifically, cold-processed
dark chocolate bars and raw dark choco-
late drinks.
Did Hippocrates, the “Father of Medi-
cine,” know intuitively exactly what he
was talking about so many centuries ago
when he urged, “Let food be thy medi-
cine”?
In that vein, what better “medicine” for
whatever ails us than chocolate for
health?
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How does eating chocolate related to
losing excessive weight? Diabetes Care, a
health journal published by the American
Diabetes Association, reported people in a
test who cut out all meat and dairy prod-
ucts and ate a low-fat vegan diet lost
more weight than did those who followed
a standard American Diabetes Associa-
tion diet.
It was also reported by the partici-
pants that the vegan diet was far easier to
follow because they did not bother to
measure portions or to count their calo-
ries. The president of the Physicians’
Committee for Responsible Medicine, Dr.
Neal Barnard, who helped conduct the
test, candidly stated, “I hope this study
will rekindle interest in using diet
changes first, rather than prescription
drugs.”
The test was conducted for 22 straight
weeks and the results showed 43 percent
on the vegan diet and 26 percent on the
standard diet were able to stop using in-
sulin or glucose-control prescription
medications, while some were able to
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lower their doses–which proved what
Hippocrates said so long ago, “food really
can be your medicine.”
Vegan dieters had shed an average of
14 pounds compared to the diabetes as-
sociation dieters’ loss of only 6.8 pounds.
In addition, the glucose control–called
A1c dropped by 1.23 points for the ve-
gans but only was lowered 0.38 points by
the standard association dieters. This
A1c gave the measure of how well-
controlled the blood sugar in both groups
had been during the test period.
Obviously, there is a need to repeat
similar tests and add healthful dark
chocolate to any tests aimed at showing
weight gains or weight loss as healthfully
needed by each individual.
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Chapter 19
CHOCOLATE & Age Reversal
esearch suggests that eating
plenty of high-ORAC foods may
help slow the process of aging in
both body and brain.
Recent studies have shown that the
antioxidants found in colorful foods such
as blueberries, red wine and chocolate
may offer a wide variety of health bene-
fits. They may help reduce some of the
stress associated with oxidation reac-
tions. Oxidation can be dangerous be-
cause it produces free radicals–
substances that have lost an electron,
leaving them incomplete and looking for a
way to become whole again. If they
snatch an electron from another molecule
to balance their electrical charges, that
will leave the other molecule unbalanced.
That can set off an uncontrolled chain re-
action that may disrupt normal bio-
chemical reactions.
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Polyphenols: Powerful Antioxidants
Scientists are currently focusing a
great deal of attention on polyphenols, a
large group of antioxidants composed of
several subgroups, including flavonoids.
The chemical structures of polyphenols
make them natural deterrents to uncon-
trolled chain reactions; they are termed
antioxidants because they are able to ab-
sorb the free radicals that oxidation pro-
duces.
Common in the plant world, polyphe-
nols are found in the bark of various
trees; their presence may account in part
for the durability of wood. In chocolate,
their presence may explain why this food,
despite its high-fat content, does not spoil
easily. In addition, chocolate, like tea and
other flavonoid-rich foods, appears to of-
fer antimicrobial action that can help
prevent cavities and oral disease, despite
its high sugar content.
Scientists classify the power of anti-
oxidants–their ability to subdue free radi-
cals–according to their oxygen absorbent
capacity (ORAC). Colorful flavonoid-rich
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fruits, including prunes, raisins, blueber-
ries, blackberries and strawberries, are at
the top of the ORAC scale–far ahead of
broccoli, garlic and spinach in terms of
units/gram. Only kale edges out straw-
berries in the top ten.
S. Mitchell Harman, MD, PhD, is Di-
rector and President of the Kronos Lon-
gevity Research Institute, a not-for-profit,
501(c)(3) organization that conducts
state-of-the-art clinical translational re-
search on the prevention of age-related
diseases and the extension of healthier
human life.
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Chapter 20
Where and What Does CHOCOLATE
Come From?
orty percent of chocolate comes
from the Ivory Coast of Africa and
Brazil.
Illegal child labor is a major problem on
the West African cocoa farms. Let's hope
that any forced child labor crime is elimi-
nated soon–wherever it thrives anywhere
worldwide.
Cacao is grown around the globe
within a narrow band that straddles the
equator. As many as 50 million people
depend upon cacoa for their livelihood,
according to the World Cocoa Founda-
tion.
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Chapter 21
The Divine CHOCOLATE Bean
ccording to an article in the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia:
Chocolate is made from cacao, a natu-
ral product containing more than 600 different
compounds. Cacao contains a variety of poly-
phenols, including tannins, which give choco-
late, tea and wine a slightly astringent taste
and feel. Chocolate also contains cocoa but-
ter, which has fatty acids that, like those in
olive oil, may protect the heart. Although stud-
ies have not yet confirmed that chocolate is as
effective as red wine in reducing risk of car-
diovascular disease, it is clear that a 40-gram
serving of dark chocolate has the same poly-
phenol content as a 5 ounce glass of red
wine. And a 40-gram milk chocolate candy bar
contains more than 300 milligrams of poly-
phenols–about the same amount as five serv-
ings of fruits and vegetables. However, you
should not substitute a chocolate candy bar
for your daily fruits and vegetables, as they
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contain other important nutrients not found in
chocolate.
Based upon ORAC values per 100 grams,
cocoa powder is the most powerful chocolate
product, followed by dark chocolate and milk
chocolate.
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Chapter 22
Medical Values of Pure High-Grade CHOCOLATE
edicinal uses for cacao/choco-
late.
Three consistent roles can be
identified: 1) to treat emaciated
patients to gain weight; 2) to stimulate
nervous systems of apathetic, exhausted
or feeble patients; and 3) to improve di-
gestion and elimination where ca-
cao/chocolate countered the effects of
stagnant or weak stomachs, stimulated
kidneys and improved bowel function.
Additional medical complaints treated
with chocolate/cacao have included:
• Anemia
• Poor appetite
• Mental fatigue
• Poor breast milk production
• Consumption/tuberculosis
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• Fever
• Gout
• Kidney stones
• Reduced longevity
• Poor sexual appetite/low virility.
Chocolate paste was a medium used
to administer drugs and to counter the
taste of bitter pharmacological additives.
In addition to cacao beans, prepara-
tions of cacao bark, oil (cacao butter),
leaves and flowers have been used to
treat burns, bowel dysfunction, cuts and
skin irritations.
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Chapter 23
The Ultra Value of Cold-Pressed CHOCOLATE
ome folks simply are not aware
that heating, baking, frying and
cooking vegetables, grains, cereals,
fruits, etc., destroys most of the
nutritional value.
WORTH REPEATING: “Health research
tests have shown raw cacao powder de-
livers around seven times the amount of
healthful antioxidants to your body than
cooked cacao powder–which amounts to
approximately a 723% increase in nutri-
tional benefit.”
Cacao beans are cold-pressed into
cakes, which separate the oil from the fi-
ber and protein. Temperature is held
around 104°F and never exceeding 120°F.
Compare that to the fact that all other
batches of cocoa powders are heated to
300°F or more.
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In the cold-press process, highly accu-
rate thermometers are used to measure
the temperature, always trying to main-
tain an ideal 104°F reading. Then in due
time the pure, liquid cocoa butter starts
to separate into a stainless steel con-
tainer. This leaves a dry and very cake-
like cocoa residue that is cold-ground,
then fine-milled and carefully sifted so
that the raw, now bio-available cocoa par-
ticles comprise a finely finished chocolate
product. This cold-process enhances
maximum antioxidant and absorptive di-
gestion value, imparting an ultra-rich
chocolate flavor when consumed.
The big difference is none of the other
food processing chemicals, like hexane
and other solvents, are utilized in the
cold-processing of the natural cacao bean
into a highly nutritional chocolate bar or
chocolate powder drink mix.
Please remember to store natural,
cold-processed chocolate in a cool, dry
area. It's not wise to store most natural
foods, even if they are free of microbes or
highly stable, in direct sunlight. That of
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Chapter 24
The Fun of Eating CHOCOLATE
he secret is out. In fact, the whole
world is beginning to know, the se-
cret is no secret anymore!
Most of the readers of my books know
we are not our body. We are not our feel-
ings. We are not even the 50,000+ daily
thoughts we generate (about 20 per sec-
ond as measured by scientists research-
ing the astounding and powerful field of
divine or human thought).
You and I give rise to new thoughts or
process existing ones passing into our
minds through the Law of Attraction. We
each and all are free at any moment to
accept and hold, or to dismiss and re-
lease, any and every thought entering our
individual ‘I Am’ identity mind space.
We are truly not our minds or even
our feelings. We are divinely much, much
more than our thoughts, feelings, or soon
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discarded bodily cloak of flesh, blood and
skin. The ‘I Am’ that I individually am, or
the ‘I Am’ that you individually are in our
innate God Oneness is divinely, eternally
and immensely more.
This God-loved, sacred, genuinely
godly human being that you are and that
I am is far more than that brief “center
stage” humanly embodied star role we
play in this magnificent theater-in-the-
round called our planet Earth.
As the genuine, eternal, non-physical
spirit beings that we are, we each and all
came into these highly mobile human
embodiments on Earth to have a good
measure of joy, of daily fun and of high
adventure.
We also came here to this particular
planet at this specific “end times” not
only to further our own spiritual growth,
but to help aid and uplift this planet and
our One Human Family–the billions of
loving brothers and sisters who share our
Earthly existence and our natural over-
flowing abundance on this so greatly
blessed “Garden of Eden” planet.
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Though our minds may be ignorant
and in denial of this truth, our hearts
know we are one collective huge human
family and each and all of us within it
needs to feel supported and to be lovingly
uplifted. That includes having unending
day-in and day-out, night-in and night-
out, deeply embraced, human experi-
enced, fun and joy!
How then does delicious, healthful
CHOCOLATE enter this genuinely accu-
rate and delightfully true Earth picture?
Here is how:
Most of us discovered even before we
could crawl or walk the wonderful sweet
and subtly lingering taste of our first
piece or drink of chocolate. We would
never forget it. Chocolate had such a de-
lightful lingering aftertaste.
So now let's explore and wisely treat
ourselves to the fun of knowing and reso-
nating to what leading edge health re-
searchers have discovered.
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Chapter 25
CHOCOLATE Is Big Business Worldwide
hirty-six million boxes of chocolate
are sold annually for Valentine's
Day alone.
The biggest vendor of chocolate
sold to shoppers is M&M MARS, as
reported by industry spokesperson (an
industry with over $14 billion in sales
annually in the USA alone).
There are over 3 million tons of choco-
late harvested annually worldwide.
Forty percent of chocolate consumed
worldwide comes from Western Europe.
The EU imports 90 percent of the cocoa
from West Africa, mainly from Cote.
It is no secret that Swiss-based Barry
Callebaut is the giant in the chocolate
world, selling one out of every four
chocolate bars, pralines and chocolates
sold worldwide.
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A spokesperson reports, “Our chocolate
sales in Asia have been growing. It has an
annual rate worldwide of chocolate and
confectionery sales of 8.65 billion Swiss,
while the USA chocolate sales are fore-
cast to reach 18 billion by 2011.
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Chapter 26
From Home Kitchen to More Than $300 Million in CHOCOLATE Sales
in Five Years
ost people have never heard of
multi-millionaire housewife,
Jeanette Brooks, but this lady is
very well known in the world of
chocolate.
I love success stories! If you have not
yet read my book, The Secret SUCCESS
FORMULA to Health, Wealth and True
Love (available in eBook form at my
BLOCKBUSTER general website:
www.RussMichaeleBooks.com), you are
in for a treat! My book is loaded with suc-
cess stories that will inspire and uplift
you, including a few of my very own.
Jeanette Brooks is in a high-level suc-
cess story category of her own making.
Janette began her worldwide “Pure De-
light” chocolate business at home in her
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kitchen. She formulated a tasty dark
chocolate bar named “Pure Delight” that
was loaded with extra high quality cocoa.
Selling for about $2 per bar, these be-
came an instant success in most of her
neighborhood stores.
Customers were soon buying her
“Pure Delight” brand of chocolate bars
almost faster than she could make them.
Her business expanded rapidly into chain
stores like Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreen,
Safeway and a host of others. In less than
five years, Jeanette's “Pure Delight”
chocolate bar sales soared to more than
300 million dollars worth of chocolate
worldwide, requiring a 65,000 square foot
refrigerated warehouse, as her famous
chocolate bars are manufactured using a
cold-press process.
What was so amazing was that doctors
and cardiologists were recommending her
brand of “Pure Delight” chocolate bars to
their patients as being good for their
blood vessels and hearts. Janette also
learned that a host of doctors were telling
each other about it and actually were
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buying her high quality natural dark
chocolate bars in large wholesale quanti-
ties and selling them at retail to their pa-
tients.
To her credit, when Jeanette began
realizing she needed to expand her
manufacturing process to keep up with
the sales demand of her now famous
“Pure Delight” dark chocolate bars, she
insisted on a cold process of the cocoa
bean into powdered chocolate. She knew
that a heat process would destroy as
much as 80 percent of the nutritional
value of her chocolate.
Jeanette was told that there was no
mass cold-process manufacturing
method for chocolate yet invented or util-
ized. She insisted that her manufacturing
company design and create their own
patented mass cold processing method
for converting the cocoa bean into a pure
chocolate powder while retaining its
natural high nutritional value, which
through her continued uncompromising
insistence was soon done. Bless her
heart.
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From information I have gleaned, 100
grams of spinach has a 1,260 ORAC rat-
ing, while 100 grams of “Pure Delight”
(sold now also under a different name)
has a 26,000 ORAC rating. This makes
Janette's dark chocolate bar 20 times
more powerful than spinach!
Therefore, Popeye might have been 20
times more powerful if he had chosen to
eat a few ounces of luscious dark choco-
late rather than gobble down a whole can
of green spinach! (SMILE))
In checking Google, I see that Jeanette
Brooks has now brought two chocolate
companies into existence and each of the
two is worth of 400 million dollars. This
lady is surely a huge boon to the pure,
dark chocolate industry worldwide
You can Google more info about
Jeanette (telling her own story) at: XOCAI
(Sho-sigh) Chocolate for Health on Squi-
doo.
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Chapter 27
CHOCOLATE Health Drinks Beat Out Other Drinks in ORAC Value Greatly
oogled Organic Chocolate mix
drink reports found worth sharing
Vitamins & Minerals
The Mexican Mayan Kings drank up to
30 pure chocolate drinks per day to
maintain an ORAC value of 95500. Squi-
doo: Mayans and Aztecs used cacao in a
royal chocolate drink called Xocolatl.
Instant Bliss Beauty Drink Health, an
organic dark chocolate beauty drink by
Eccobella claims chocolate's ORAC value
is more than two times higher!
Xocai dark chocolate beverage. The
most impressive aspect of this modern
chocolate beverage is its high antioxidant
content. The ORAC value of one ounce of
the Xoçai™ Beverage is 3097.
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XOCAI (Sho-sigh) Chocolate for Health:
The chart that was shown contained the
ORAC values of several high-antioxidant
Health by Chocolate reports that their
chocolate's ORAC value is more than two
times higher! They report both their
health by chocolate bar and health by
chocolate drinks contain only 2 teaspoons
of sugar.
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Chapter 28
Guideline in Shopping For Highest Quality
CHOCOLATE
aim to be brief and to the point here.
The most healthfully beneficial choco-
late bars or chocolate drinks will have
at least 60 percent or more (70 percent or
more is better) of cocoa in them. Most
chocolate bars fall far short of that. The
widely sold dark chocolate for baking may
often contain only 39 percent or less co-
coa. Even well known brands of milk
chocolate sold worldwide such as the
Hershey's brand may contain only 30
percent cocoa.
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TIP: Look through chocolate bars at your local health food or natural food stores or at chocolate sold through natural food outlets on the easily ac-cessible internet via Google or your favorite search engine. Check for yourself which bars and which brands contain the most cocoa and the least chemical ingredients.
If any way possible, buy and consume
only dark chocolate that has NOT been
chemically processed or heat treated.
Cold-pressed chocolate, cereals, grains,
etc., are by far the most healthful foods
you can ingest.
A standard rule when you read labels
is the fewer number of ingredients or
chemical-sounding additives in any food
you buy, chocolate included, the more
natural and more healthfully nutritious it
will be.
Do NOT buy chocolate bars made with
margarine or hardened oil instead of pure
natural cocoa butter.
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NOTE: Heart attacks, gall bladder
stones, diabetes, etc., became major dis-
eases or grave illnesses only after marga-
rines and hard oils such as canola oil
(rapeseed oil) were allowed by an obvi-
ously miscreant FDA to be smuggled into
and made “part and parcel” of most of
our processed foods.
Finally, the higher cost trade of
greater nutritional value far outweighs
the lesser cost of an inferior chocolate bar
or chocolate drink.
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Chapter 29
Your Body Deserves the Best Quality CHOCOLATE
f you have read any of my more than
30 books, you will know that I regard
our human embodiments as a sacred
abode of our human soul. Therefore, it
ought to be no surprise that I recommend
you seek and find the highest quality
sources of dark chocolate bars or dark
chocolate drink mixes you can find–even
if you have to make the chocolate bars or
chocolate drink mixes with your divine
human body's own two hands.
Hippocrates knew that value of eating
the best natural foods if you want to in-
gest the best possible known medicine in
the world.
When it comes to chocolate, why not
be wise and treat your body with the best
kind of natural “medicine” that Hippo-
crates himself would choose. Look for the
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best chocolate you can find. Consume the
best chocolate that money can buy or a
master chef can invent.
If it helps, think of Hippocrates or of
me looking over your shoulder when you
make that final last moment purchase.
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Chapter30
Join Me in Spreading the GOOD WORD About Our So Lovable CHOCOLATE
sn't it time that everyone knew about
the surprising and pleasing fact that
chocolate is good for health? It cer-
tainly is time for you and me to be
the bearer of good news about the amaz-
ing very high nutritional value of choco-
late.
Yes, indeed. It is also highly important
to recognize and to emphasize that it is
the organic or raw, cold-pressed, unproc-
essed, darker chocolate that is jam-
packed with nutritional value for your
body and mine.
We addressed the fact that raw foods,
whether milk, fresh ripe fruits, fresh ripe
veggies, or ripe unprocessed grains, cere-
als, nuts, etc., are the most beneficial to
our bodily health in a former chapter, so
no need to stress that fact further.
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I felt in my heart and soul a genuine
“call to duty” to write this book, Chocolate
For Health knowing innately the truth
about the high nutritional value of choco-
late. This truth has been ignored by the
mainstream, dark-controlled press that
works mainly to support the sale of drugs
and the plethora of additives in our daily
foods, to the detriment of our health. Big
Pharm and dark One World Corporate
powers reap the clearly observed, huge
shameful income benefit from the control
of all of our major religious, financial, po-
litical and government bodies on Earth.
Here are some of the things you can
do with chocolate or cocoa powder. You
may add it to your favorite smoothies
(one heaped tablespoon will do) and
watch them instantly become raw choco-
late masterpieces!
You can blend it with raw coconut oil
and agave nectar for instant raw choco-
late syrup! (Then put this on top of raw
ice cream or fresh fruit–AMAZING!)
You can blend it in a food processor
with raw nut butters and agave nectar for
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the most delicious desert you've ever had.
(In fact, similar nut butters mixed with
roasted cocoa powder are very expensive
in health food stores.)
You can make any cookie, brownie or
pie more chocolate tasting and delicious
by just adding a tablespoon or more to
taste.
You can blend it with sweet almond
milk. This results in a creamy dark
chocolate milk that's LOADED with anti-
oxidant power and tastes out of this
world!
Make your own chocolate and so
much more!
It is my hope that you will “feel the
call” within your own heart and soul to
spread the facts that chocolate is good for
your health far and wide across our
Earth. Bless you. Bless us all.
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AAPPPPEENNDDIIXX
ALARMING FACTS About the FDA and the USDA
Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr
Herbert Ley, in testimony before a U.S.
Senate hearing, commented: “People
think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't.
What the FDA is doing and what the pub-
lic thinks it's doing are as different as
night and day.” The financial and political
influence of this medical community has
almost totally subverted the original in-
tent of our regulatory agencies. They rou-
tinely approve death-dealing, ineffective
drugs with insufficient testing.
Here too, so very obviously, the FDA is
NOT to be trusted as our public guardian!
ALERT: From the Organic Consumers
Organization
USDA SAYS ALMONDS LABELED AS
'RAW' CAN ACTUALLY BE PASTEURIZED
Under pressure from industrial agricul-
ture lobbyists, the USDA has quietly ap-
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proved a new regulation that will effec-
tively end distribution of raw almonds,
while putting many family farmers out of
business.
The rule requires pasteurization of
almonds, including organic, yet allows
those same almonds to continue to be la-
beled as “raw.” Nutritionists point out
that raw, organic almonds are far supe-
rior in terms of nutrition than pasteur-
ized almonds.
One of the FDA-recommended pas-
teurization methods requires the use of
propylene oxide, which is classified as a
“possible human carcinogen” by the In-
ternational Agency for Research on Can-
cer and is banned in Canada, Mexico and
the European Union.
Organic and family-scale almond
farmers are protesting the proposed rule,
saying it will effectively put them out of
business, since the minimum price for
the pasteurization equipment is
$500,000.
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The USDA claims pasteurization is
necessary since there have been two food
contamination incidents with raw al-
monds since 2001.
But both of these incidents were, in
fact, the result of blatant mismanage-
ment on large industrial-scale almond
farms.
Take action now to demand that the
FDA reopen this proposed rule to public
comments:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
articles/article_5227.cfm
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TAX FACTS
Taxing Facts Relative to our Health and Personal Well Being
Note: At first this highly revelatory poem seems rather funny–then you real-ize the awful truth of it as you read on. It seems crystal-clear that taxes are not good for anyone's health!
Tax Him from Birth to Death
Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table at which he's fed.
Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat.
Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries, then Tax his tears.
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Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways to tax his ass.
Tax all he has then let him know you won't be done till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers, then tax him some more,
Tax him till he's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin , Tax his grave, Tax the sod in which he's laid.
Put these words upon his tomb, “Taxes drove me to my doom.”
When he's gone, Do not relax, It’s time to apply the inheritance tax
• Accounts Receivable Tax
• Building Permit Tax
• CDL license Tax Cigarette Tax
• Corporate Income Tax
• Dog License Tax
• Excise Taxes
• Federal Income Tax
• Federal Unemployment Tax
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• (FUTA) Fishing License Tax
• Food License Tax
• Fuel Permit Tax
• Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
• Gross Receipts Tax
• Hunting License Tax
• Inheritance Tax
• Inventory Tax
• Liquor Tax
• Luxury Taxes
• Marriage License Tax
• Medicare Tax
• Personal Property Tax
• Property Tax
• Real Estate Tax
• Service Charge Tax
• Road Usage Tax Sales Tax
• Recreational Vehicle Tax
• School Tax
• Provincial Income Tax
• Utility Taxes Vehicle License Regis-tration Tax
• Vehicle Sales Tax
• Watercraft Registration Tax
• Well Permit Tax
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• Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago.100 years ago we had abso-lutely no national debt.
What happened?
Can you spell “sell-out politicians?” Can you spell “sell-out governments?” “Can you spell “The Beast?” Can you spell “the sleeping masses?”
If so, you are certainly on the track of how, why and what happened in this past century. Meanwhile, keep your spirit light and joyful and know that Creator God Source has a far better plan for us–so enjoy your chocolate and spread the up-lifting news far and wide about what you now know about Chocolate for HEALTH.
Bless us all!
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Recommended High Vibration Books
and Study Data
Heavenletters - Book One, by Gloria Wendroff.
Gloria has received over two thousand Heav-
enletters; one hundred fit in one book, so expect
a huge series of books soon worldwide. In-
credibly high vibration. The book currently is
published in English, German, Greek, Roma-
nian, and is expected to be published in about
15 more languages soon. Gloria also conducts
awesome Godwriting Workshops. I attended
one she held in Munich, Germany. It was fan-
tastic. Join Gloria’s worldwide email list to re-
ceive her FREE daily email Heavenletter by
signing up on her website at
www.heavenletters.org.
Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks.
The Law of Attraction, by Esther and Jerry
Hicks. Hay House, Inc. - P.O. Box 5100, Carls-
bad, CA 92018 USA; www.hayhouse.com;
800-654-5146. Extremely high vibration. Read
ALL of what they offer. Take a world cruise
with Esther and Jerry. See study data, books,
CDs, etc., at www.abraham-hicks.com
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Home With God, by Neale Donald Walsch. Atria
books. I highly recommend ALL the “Conver-
sations With God” books by Neale Donald
Walsch, likewise, a very, very incredibly high
vibration.
All four of the “Matthew” books by Suzanne
Ward., and Tell Me About Heaven, by Suzanne
Ward. Terrific insights. Matthew died at 17 and
speaks from Heaven. Great E.T. information.
Suzanne Ward is on my top 10 list of current
spiritual authors. Email:
SETH Speaks, by Jane Roberts. Read all of the
many “SETH” books.
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Yogananda Parmah-
ansa. A classic that is published in 40 or more
languages. Be sure to read this one. Wowee!
The Masters of the Far East, by Baird Spaulding
(series of four books). Very inspirational and a
fascinating adventures read.
The Seven Rays, by Alice A Bailey. All 20-plus
books in the Alice A. Bailey series.
The Magic Presence, by Godfre Ray King. All of
the 20-plus St. Germain ‘I Am’ book series
by
Godfre Ray King.
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ALL Deepak Chopra books
ALL Louise Hays books
ALL my own Russ Michael books (please see the
final section, “Final Note from the Author
Scribe…”, for information on how to obtain
eBooks and how to subscribe to my FREE daily
email Michael Worldwide Newsletter)
Finding Your Soulmate, by Russ Michael. In 13
languages, this best seller is still selling strong
after 35 years. Publisher: Jan Johnson Red
Wheel/Weiser Books/Conari Press, 500 3rd
Street, Suite 230, San Francisco, CA 94107.
Phone: 415-978-2665, x102. Fax: 415-869-
1022. Email: [email protected]
or visit their website at
www.redwheelweiser.com.
Your Soulmate is Calling, by Russ Michael. Haz-
ard Press–New Zealand (in 12 languages).
Email: [email protected] or visit their
website at www.hazardpress.com.
Autobiography of an IMMORTAL, by Michael, ‘I
Am’ (AKA Russ Michael). Already contracted
for publication in Romanian, Greek and Ger-
man. I am expecting to contract publication
with an English language publication soon.
Available to publishers in Word or as a PDF
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file through email:
THE SECRET–is No Secret Anymore. ASK and
There Is NOTHING You Cannot BE–DO or
HAVE, by Russ Michael. Available through
this publisher, and probably many others
worldwide. Available to publishers in
Word or as a PDF file through my email:
[email protected] OR order
directly from the website
www.TheSecretIsNoSecret.com
Soulmates, Twin Rays and Special Lovers, by
Russ Michael. Latest authored book is expected
to be published in many languages soon. Avail-
able to publishers in Word or as a PDF file
through my email:
HARNESSING the Power of The Universe, by
Russ Michael. Coming up next. When com-
pleted, it will be available to publishers in
Word or as a PDF file through email:
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Dear Michael
Every word pours from you like gold.
Gloria Wendroff [Heavenletters]
Dear Michael:
I'm working hard on myself so I could have this
'equal' to drop in, soon I hope! I am just now read-
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in our soulmate etc. It's most inspiring Michael.
Thanks a ton!
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Blessings, Sybil
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lecture...all of us in Little Rock are waiting with
open arms for your return.”
“We want to tell you how much everyone appreci-
ated your enlightening lectures and workshops. So
many people have been helped with the formula for
creating a better self image.”
“A huge thank you for a super terrific training
conference. The quality of the training...was the
most outstanding of any conference or seminar
I’ve ever attended. Doors are opening for me on
subtle levels...as I examine my current belief sys-
tems and see the effect they have been having on
me. It’s a very interesting time.”
“ ...it gives me such pleasure and joy to be saying
to you–"thank you for your help–you brought love
back into my life.”
“Your instructions had the effect of synthesizing
all the previous information I received.”
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Other Instructors Say
“I might add that I have read several of your
books and find them quite complementary to my
own studies and experience.”
“I’m writing to thank you for your books and your
work... your writing has been a great help to many
of my students and friends.”
“Fate had it that I didn’t meet you personally Sat-
urday when you spoke at AUM–I must say you left
a ‘Glorious Impression’ all I heard was ‘he is so
gentle and loving’–some said you were just like
me–which means you must be terrific.”
And from another instructor who heads a new-age
institution: "You help us all to see ourselves in the
true light of love and great potential! I want to add
a word of personal praise to your books. I read
them all and am suggesting them to those who are
truly seeking. We have adopted your words as our
motto. We uphold all that unites, uplifts and ex-
pands, etc. Beautiful!
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What TV Viewers Say
“I enjoyed you so on Damien Simpson’s program.
Please tell me how much "Soul-Mates" is so I can
order it right away.”
“I trust you and would heed your words...just be-
ing able to write to you is a pearl of great price.”
What Radio Listeners Say
“I listened to you on the radio...never have I been
so delighted at such a public declaration of Truth,
and what with all the hurdles that were thrown in
your direction by the M.C. and all those who
called in later on.”
“I must say how overjoyed I was to hear question
after question met with such spontaneous lucidity
and
thoroughness, in a manner that, in most cases, the
questioner seemed to be able to understand and
relate to on one level or another. Amazing all the
soul force
a radio show like that can stir up, all over a city.”
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Appreciation from Universities
“...our appreciation of your lecture here at St.
Cloud State and to tell you of the widespread in-
terest in your commentary throughout the campus.
You adapted yourself well...and presented your
format in an easily understood manner.”
“I would like to thank you for the interesting and
informative presentation you gave to St. John’s
University...the Psychology Club felt that the eve-
ning was most successful and appreciate the boost
your appearance gave our program.”
Appreciation from Unity Churches
“Thank you for sharing your insights and your
consciousness with Unity of Little Rock. I feel that
your philosophy blends very well with Unity’s
thinking and I welcome your return to the Little
Rock area.”
-Don Bould
“Russ Michael is truly a teacher of the New Age.
His books, lectures and seminars have reached
thousands of students, inspiring them to find within
their own consciousness the spiritual expansion
and direction which will lead them to true soul ful-
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fillment. I consider him truly one of the highly
evolved and inspired teachers in the world today. I
know that all who are in touch with him will be
inspired and will gain new vision for their own po-
tential.”
-Donald Curtis
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More Offerings by Russ Michael
CHOCOLATE for HEALTH –
The Amazing Health Benefits of
Chocolate
Russ Michael asks the Queens and
Kings of Chocolate to indulge their
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The Secret Doctrine of the Ancient
Mysteries Through your awareness of these
once secret MYSTERIES--and their
study and use of the laws outlined
within them--you are enabled to escape the old
prison house of matter. You realize your true iden-
tity as the soul. You find a true recognition of your
source as a spirit.
The Secret Great White Brotherhood Is life as we know it here upon earth
more than a mere accident of nature?
Is there a deeper, higher, broader and
truer meaning to your life and mine
than what we feel or perceive at this moment in
space and time? All these important questions -
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and many more - may fully be answered for you in
this volume.
The Secret is No Secret Anymore
If you want to understand more about
The SECRET mysterious powers of
the Universe, read the authoritative
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laria to discover the formula that has cured 75,000
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Finding Your Soulmate This best-selling classic was first pub-
lished in 1971, when Russ Michael
brought the concept of and the actual
word "Soulmate" into mass conscious-
ness on Earth. While most books are out of print in
a few years, this book is still a top-selling item
over 37 years later and read in 12 languages world-
wide.
Autobiography of an
IIMMORTAL
The exciting true story about the life
and adventures of Russ
Michael. If you want to understand
more about the powers of the uni-
verse, learn from a key world spiritual mentor,
himself. Russ Michael shares his personal experi-
ences from a very low point in 1965 when he
found himself homeless, barely eking out a daily
existence and living in abject poverty, to his ex-
periences founding global companies and traveling
the world. This incredible story puts you into the
mind of the man who has worked for decades to
bring readers The Light.
The Secret of Sex and Sexual At-
traction You can draw anyone or any thing to
you by the deliberate use of the Law
of Attraction and a large personal
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stock of pheromones. "Your conscious co-creator
job on Earth is to learn how to live your life fully
in a safe world. In that safe world, you will most
aptly find that sex is good. Violence against an-
other is bad, guilt is bad, to judge is bad, regret is
bad, and even living in the past is bad - but sex is
good!"
Soulmates, Twin Rays and Special
Lovers
Given a choice (and who does not
have free choice?) most of us on
Earth today would choose sharing
what remains of this day and the re-
maining days of our physical human life on Earth
with a warm, fun-loving Soulmate or a genuinely
blissful Twin Ray or special lover.
Your Soulmate is Calling Somewhere deep inside every one of
us is the knowledge that somewhere--
at this very moment--someone special
is calling out to us for recognition.
Your Soulmate is calling you, wherever on earth
he or she resides. Your Soulmate is sending out a
distress signal. The essence of his or her signal is:
“Where are you? I am waiting here for you. I want
you!”
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FINDING MR. RIGHT OR MRS.
RIGHT Mr. Right or Mrs. Right wants you as
much as you want him or her. You
only need to know what you really
want. Combine that decision with the knowledge
you gain here about how to increase your attrac-
tiveness or personal magnetism, and you are al-
ready moving forward on your way to a really,
really bright and RIGHT love relationship! Why
not recognize and swiftly cut those painful cords
that bind you to the past?
The SECRET PROVEN
FORMULA to WEALTH,
HEALTH & TRUE LOVE
All that magic means is the wise use
of applied knowledge. The word
stems from Magi, wise men from the East. As you
read on, you will soon notice that I make many
references to law.
The Birth of Earth as a Star
End times is not an idle phrase. The
old is about to vanish and the new is
already starting to begin. What is the
END at one level of being is the
BEGINNING at another.
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Life in the Dead Zone
Death is merely the cessation of
three-dimensional motion. It is a per-
sonal state of rest that will return to a
state of motion again. Rest and mo-
tion, or death and life, are now, and have been for-
ever, interwoven.
Eleven Magic Steps to Success
There is nothing you cannot be, do or
have. You only need to ASK - and
through the sacred heritage of who and
what you are, your every request is
granted at the moment it is made.
The Mental Room of Mirrors
The Room of Mirrors self-therapy
technique - presented here is indeed a
valid precious gift to humanity. I
know it well and I am pleased to pass
on this powerful healing technique along to hu-
manity in this volume.
100 True RAMTHA Miracle Sto-
ries
I wish to personally thank each and
all of these grand masters who have
shared their experiences with me and
whose beautiful, inspiring miracle stories are now
here presented to be shared with you.
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There is NOTHING You Cannot
BE, DO or HAVE
The real gold is found in and through
your own creative thought or socially
cooperative co-creative ideas coupled
with the fire--or the fuel--of a desire for something
in you so strong you can taste it.
When GOD Speaks, I Listen
Have you noticed in a loud crowd that
when someone suddenly speaks up in
a soft and quiet voice how everyone
now stops talking to listen? That is
how God usually speaks, in soft whispers!
Why & How of Meditation
As you progress in the art of medita-
tion, you discover--perhaps with as-
tonishment--that the most profound
things in life are more simply ex-
pressed. A Blockbuster classic! Read by thou-
sands in print!
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Final note from the author scribe...
In addition to my best-seller, Finding
Your Soulmate, which is still selling in 12
languages, I have written more than 20
published self-help books and I invite you
to obtain and read them all.
After my death experience at age 18
and in the unfolding due course of my
spiritual work, I have received thousands
of letters of gratitude from readers of my
books and from many grateful attendants
of my workshops who have found their
soulmates or their Twin Ray life compan-
ions, or made their wildest, most impos-
sible dreams come true. A few days ago, I
received an email from someone who re-
cently obtained and read my 360-page
autobiography.
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Dear kindly eBook reader,
This is what Carolyn Tester had to say to me about
Autobiography of an IMMORTAL. Bless her heart.
I don't think I have ever enjoyed reading anything as I
am now doing with your autobiography. I'm now be-
ginning to read slower and slower … as the end of it
gets nearer … a habit I've acquired when in a GOOD
read.
Love to you and yours,
Carolyn Tester
If you enjoyed this or any other books
of mine, please encourage your loved
ones, friends and associates to obtain
and read them all.
I suggest that you obtain my own
Autobiography of an IMMORTAL or any
of my current eBooks–soon to be 35 or
more.
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