Tag: flavonols
Your Heart Truly Loves Chocolate!
A new study indicates that eating chocolate each day can be good for your heart. Â According to this study from the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Nuthetal, Germany, eating small amounts of chocolate can reduce your risk of a stroke or heart attack by 40%. To obtain their results, German scientists followed 20,000 people [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2010 under chocolate, Heart Health.
Tags: Benefits of chocolate, cacao, fighting stress, flavonols, lower blood pressure, lower risk of stroke
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Paying Homage to the Onion
Study: Onion Compounds May Cut Colon Cancer Risk in Half “Impossible.” That’s what I said to myself the other day, shocked and chagrined that I’d never written about the onion. How is this possible? After all, the onion’s the third largest vegetable crop produced in the United States, not one, but two states call the [...]
Posted: September 19th, 2009 under Cancer.
Tags: Colon cancer, flavonols, onion, onion and cancer, onion health benefits, quercetin
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