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One more time about cocoa benefit
One ingredient of cocoa has so striking benefits on health that it “may contest penicillin and anesthesia from the viewpoint of importance to public health”.
Norman Hollenberg, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School explained in the interview to journal Chemistry & Industry, that ingredient - epicatechin - can reduce the risk of such diseases as stroke and heart failure,.
Professor Hollenberg has spent years in researches of the benefits of cocoa drinking on the Kuna people on the San Blas islands off the coast of Panama. They drink up to 40 cups of cocoa a week. Among the Kuna, he found that the risk of stroke, heart failure and cancer was considerably less.
“Epicatechin could potentially get rid of four of the five most common diseases in the western world,” he told the journal.
The cocoa that the Kuna drink is homemade and very rich in chemicals called -flavanols, notably epicatechin, which is known to have cardio-vascular benefits.
Flavanols are removed from commercial cocoas because they strengthen a bitter taste of drink.