Chocolate joins the pantheon of functional foods like tea, berries, and coffee. Alan Frost, founder of Flava Naturals performance dark chocolate, details cocoa flavanols' cognitive, cardiovascular, and exercise performance benefits. He discusses the new FDA-qualified claim on cocoa flavanols and the...
Central stimulatory and hallucinogenic drugs of abuse like amphetamine and most congeners of amphetamine can have cardiac harmful effects. These cardiac side effects can lead to morbidities and death. In this paper, we review current knowledge on the direct and indirect effects of these amphetamine co...
The exact effects of caffeine on the body are well-documented. When consumed, caffeine enters the bloodstream and travels to the brain, where it blocks the action of adenosine, a neurotransmitter responsible for inducing sleepiness. Caffeine also increases the production of other neurotransmitters, suc...
If just thinking about chocolate makes your mouth water, read on to discover what this ancient food actually does to your body and mind...
1 cup (8 ounces) of coffee contains about 95 milligrams of caffeine. Decaf coffee has only 4 milligrams. A shot ofespressohas 65 milligrams of caffeine. How does that compare to other caffeinated foods and drinks? A 1-ounce square of dark chocolate has about 24 milligrams of caffeine. (Mi...
Dark chocolate candy bar, 1.5 oz: 31 mg NoDoz, regular strength, 1 tablet: 100 mg NoDoz, maximum strength, 1 tablet: 200 mg Excedrin, 2 tablets: 130 mg Caffeine can produce a range of physical symptoms following ingestion of as little as 100 mg, although amounts of 250 mg or...
The animals were housed in colony cages, under standard laboratory conditions, with free access to food (chow pellets, Bacutil, Motycz, Poland) and tap water. All mice were maintained at an ambient temperature of 20 ± 1°C and on the natural light-dark cycle. All the procedures undertaken...
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The good news is, premium grade dark chocolate contains only cocoa butter, a fat that naturally occurs in cocoa beans, which is made up of stearic acid (34%), oleic acid (34%), palmitic acid (25%), and the rest of other fatty acids, whereby the combined effect of all the fats foun...
In addition to sweet potatoes, othertop antioxidant foodsinclude goji berries, blueberries, dark chocolate and pecans. 3. May aid brain function Some researchhas found that eatingsweet potatoes could help boost brain function and improve memory thanks to their abundance of nutrients and antioxidants....