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OBJECTIVE:
ChocLick Wine believes it can combine chocolate and wine with health conscious consumers to form a guilt free platform. Science has proven consuming predetermined amounts of dark chocolate and wine on a continuous basis is a contributor to healthier hearts.
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RED WINE has long been touted as heart healthy. Some have suggested that the apparent health benefits of red wine, namely reducing your risk of heart disease, are behind the so-called French paradox. The French are regular drinkers of red wine and have relatively high amounts of saturated fats in their diet. Despite their fat intake, the French rates of heart disease.
While the news about red wine might sound great if you enjoy a glass of red wine with your evening meal, doctors are wary of encouraging anyone to drink alcohol because too much alcohol can have a host of harmful effects on your body.
But despite the caution, doctors do agree that something in the red wine appears to help your heart, though its unclear just exactly what that "something" is. Recent research indicated a substance called resveratol, which is found in the skin and seeds of the grapes used to make wine, has promising heart healthy benefits.
Some heart healthy benefits of red wine include:
* Raises high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, the "good" cholesterol
* Inhibits the formation of blood clots
* Helps prevent artery damage caused by high levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the "bad" cholesterol
Red wine in particular seems to have even more heart-health benefits than other types of alcohol, according to a large Danish study in 2000. The study known as the Copenhagen City Heart Study, found that those who drank red wine had about half the risk of dying of heart disease those who didn't.
The pro-red wine studies suggest antioxidants in red wine called polyphenois help protect the lining of the blood vessels in your heart. The anitoxidants come in two main forms: Flavonoids and non-flavonoids.
Those people who drink moderate amounts of red wine seem to have lower risk of heart disea* Flavonoids.... These anitoxidants are found in a variety of foods, including oranges, apples, onions, tea and cocoa. Other types of alcohol, such as white wine, and beer, contain small amounts, too, but red wine has higher levels.
* Nonflavonoids....These antioxidants found in red wine have recently been of particular interest because they help prevent arteries from becoming clogged with fatty blockages. However, these studies mostly involved mice, not humans. Resveratrol is the non-flavnoid that researchers are most interested in.
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