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The Family Physician Kit

2010-08-26T14:41:00.001+01:00

Six Single Essential Oils and Four Essential Oil Blends
that no family should ever be without

doTERRA's New 2010 Essential Oils Products Cataloge

2010-07-27T23:04:00.005+01:00

Download the new 2010 Product Calaloge ProductCatalog2010.pdf

dōTERRA’s network of botanical growers and distillers span the globe from Oman to Corsica, from Sri Lanka to France. Only the purest and most potent Essential Oils meet our strict standards of CPTG® Certified pure therapeutic grade. Accept nothing less from your wellness Professional or for your family.

All Essential Oils Brochures in pdf format

2010-07-27T22:19:00.006+01:00

Click on any of the Brochures below to activate your download and click save to your computer or open to view now.

AlphaCRSScientificRef.pdf
AromaAceDiff.pdf
AromaTouchFlyer.pdf
CompPlan.pdf
EssentialSkinCare.pdf
Family_Physician_Kit.pdf
IPCAgreement_EU_UK.pdf
New Preferred Customer 110708.pdf
OrderForm US.pdf
ProductCatalog2010.pdf
ProductCatalog2010_CHina.pdf
ProdOrderForm_Spain.pdf
ProdOrderForm_Taiwan.pdf
PIP MJ Assist v2.pdf
PIPSlimSassy.pdf
QuickReferenceCharts.pdf
Slim & Sassy.pdf
TerraShield_PIP_v11.pdf
WellnessBrochure.pdf

Beginners Kit of Essential Oils

2010-07-27T21:39:00.004+01:00

ESSENTIAL OIL BLENDS
doTERRa’s essential oil blends are proprietary formulas for targeted wellness applications.. They represent the converging wisdom of many years of therapeutic essential oil experience and validation of a growing body of research and scientific study. Harnessing the inherent living energies of plants, each formula is synergi stically balanced to enhance product potency and benefits and contains only Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade essential oils..

Using essential oils is intuitively simple and highly satisfying. However, the many oils available with their numberless combinations and wellness applications can be a bit overwhelming to beginners.

As a simple first step on your journey with essential oils, we recommend a trio of lavender, lemon, and peppermint, three of our most popular oils. They will provide you and your family a compelling experience with the life-enhancing properties of therapeutic-grade essential oils.

Aromatouch Technique

2010-07-27T20:20:00.000+01:00

What is the AromaTouch™ Technique?
dōERRA’s AromaTouch Technique is a clinical approach to applying essential oils along energy meridians and visceral contact points of the back and feet to help balance sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems of the body. Developed by Dr. David Hill, a leading expert in integrative medicine and therapeutic applications of essential oils, the AromaTouch Technique improves wellbeing by reducing physical and emotional stressors and by supporting healthy autonomic function. The technique is simple and intuitive and uses dōERRA’s CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade™essential oils for an unparalleled grounding experience for recipients.

ESSENTIAL SKIN CARE PRODUCTS

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Anti-Aging Moisturizer
Reduce the signs of aging cutting-edge ingredients combine with the CPTG® Essential Oils of lavender, jasmine, geranium, and frankincense to provide an anti-aging moisturizer that will target the visible signs of aging—improving skin elasticity and tone, reducing the appearance and number of wrinkles as well as helping to prevent the future signs of mechanical aging.

Clinically supported benefits of the Essential Skin Care Ingredients.

. Stimulates collagen production

• Smoothes skin texture

• Reduces appearance of wrinkles

• Minimizes mechanical creasing

• Minimizes pore appearance

• Evens tone, reduces discoloration

• Protects against further damage

• Improves cellular hydration and nutrition

PastTense - Essential oil blend for tension and discomfort

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doTERRA®'s proprietary blend for tension and the discomforts associated with headaches, provides calming comfort with the strength of CPTG® essential oils of wintergreen, lavender, peppermint, frankincense, cilantro, marjoram, roman chamomile, basil, and rosemary. Packaged for convenient application in a roll-on bottle.

Deep Blue Oil - soothing blend

2010-07-14T23:36:00.000+01:00

According to recent studies, more than half of us are sufferers of ongoing discomfort. Deep Blue® is dōTERRA®'s soothing solution to this challenge. Wintergreen, camphor, peppermint, blue tansy, blue chamomile, helichrysum and osmanthus work together to ease achy joints and sore muscles. Its effects are deep and penetrating with sustained results. Once gently rubbed into the area of discomfort, Deep Blue's cool therapeutic benefit will be felt almost immediately. For topical use only.

Slim and Sassy - Metabolic blend

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dōTERRA®'s Slim & Sassy Metabolic Blend is a proprietary formula of 100% pure CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade® essential oils designed to help manage appetite between meals. Slim & Sassy includes a blend of grapefruit, lemon, peppermint, ginger, and cinnamon essential oils. Just add 8 drops to 16 oz. of water (regular size bottle of water) and drink between your healthy meals throughout the day to help manage hunger, calm your stomach, and lift your mood.

Xocai - Perfect Combination Video

2009-09-03T22:21:00.000+01:00

Prevent future threats to chocolate plantations

2009-08-24T00:34:00.000+01:00

In the 1990s witches' broom disease (WBD), believed to have been introduced by humans, ripped its way through the main Brazilian cocoa region of Bahia, leaving 200,000 without work and decimating cacao supplies. As a result, in 10 years Brazil has gone from being the world's second-largest exporter of cocoa beans to a net importer.

Research programmes funded by the Brazilian government, including an attempt to sequence the genes of the pathogen, are aiming to shed light on this notoriously difficult disease that is proving extremely tricky to solve. But according to Dr. Gareth Griffith, a plant pathologist at the University of Wales, a risk assessment should be carried out as soon as possible.

"I feel that this has been disregarded as a small risk, but we need to learn from past mistakes. Improved travel links and world trade could allow fungal infections to spread to uninfected regions such as Ghana and the Ivory Coast," the scientist told FoodNavigator.com.

Threat to Chocolate Plantations

2009-08-24T00:20:00.000+01:00

Hanging as a persistent threat to the chocolate industry witches' broom disease is capable of wiping out entire cacao crops and sending the price of chocolate rocketing. Despite ongoing research into the threat confirmed by the chocolate industry, a UK scientist warns this week that more needs to be done to assess the risk of this fungal disease - that has swept through South America - from spreading to West Africa, the primary cacao growing region.

Dr. Mary Engler

2009-08-23T23:37:00.000+01:00

Chocolate has always had a bad rap because of the high calories and the fat content, but forty percent of the chocolate is represented as mono and saturate fat - oleic acid - which can lower LDL, or the bad cholesterol. The other sixty percent consists of thirty-five percent of stearic acid, which is cholesterol neutral.

In Response to Comment on Crester for Cholesterol

2009-08-17T11:26:00.000+01:00

I'm glad you found a prescription drug that helped your eyesight. But chocolate is none prescription and has no known side effects. Crester however does have a few side effects, these include muscle pain, constipation, nausea, and weakness. You need to inform your healthcare provider about before you take Crestor are heart disease, kidney disease, and liver disease or liver failure. To reduce the chances of drug interactions, you should also let your healthcare provider know about all of the medicines you currently take.

Is it really worth the risk I know which I would rather try! check out this link Crester

University of Notingham - Chocolate May Lower Blood Pressure

2009-08-15T21:37:00.000+01:00

Having a morsel of chocolate every day - May lower blood pressure levels and lead to clinically important reductions for cardiovascular diseases, suggests a new study. Results of the randomised, controlled, parallel-group trial, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, involved 44 adults with pre- (BP 130/85 - 139/89) or stage one hypertension (BP 140/90 - 160/100), suggest that a daily serving of dark chocolate containing 30 calories associated with a lowering of blood pressure.

http://research.nottingham.ac.uk/NewsReviews/newsDisplay.aspx?id=309

Lose Weight with Chocolate?

2009-08-13T22:58:00.000+01:00

For many people, chocolate's brain benefits extend to then suppression of appetite and weight control. this may also help to elevate mood in the long term, as excess weight and obesity are often causes of depression. Several theories explain how chocolate might aid in weight loss;

It provides the appropriate amount of vitamins and minerals the body needs thus decreasing the urges for added fuel.

Dr Mary Engler - Why Dark Chocolate is Best

2009-08-12T23:59:00.000+01:00

Dr Mary Engler explains why Dark chocolate is better than Milk chocolate and why we risk losing antioxidant benefits by adding milk to cocoa.

This video is long but she does go through everything thoroughly as she is an expert in
her field.

Studies on Cocoa

2009-08-12T08:42:00.000+01:00

A recent study from Japanese researchers supports the idea of chocolate being a weight control tool, finding that regular consumption of cocoa was able to prevent obesity and weight gain in animal subjects. The study showed that the body weight and flood lipid levels wee significantly lower in the cocoa fed group than in the control group.
Analysis also showed that in the cocoa diet group, metabolism and storage of fats was restricted and the fat burning mechanism was increased.

Chronic Inflammation

2009-08-11T16:42:00.000+01:00

Cocoa's flavonoid content can relieve inflammation. Chronic inflammation is associated with low leptin levels, which increases appetite. In addition cortisol levels increase with elevated inflammatory chemicals that start to break down muscles, deposit fat in cells and fuel the appetite.

CHOCOLATE COULD GIVE SHORT TERM MEMORY BOOSTER

2009-08-05T19:49:00.000+01:00

Eating chocolate could help to sharpen up the mind and give a short-term boost to cognitive skills, a University of Nottingham expert has found.
Eating chocolate could help to sharpen up the mind and give a short-term boost to cognitive skills, a University of Nottingham expert has found.
A study led by Professor Ian Macdonald found that consumption of a cocoa drink rich in flavanols - a key ingredient of dark chocolate - boosts blood flow to key areas of the brain for two to three hours.

Increased blood flow to these areas of the brain may help to increase performance in specific tasks and boost general alertness over a short period.

The findings, unveiled at one of the biggest scientific conferences in America, also raise the prospect of ingredients in chocolate being used to treat vascular impairment, including dementia and strokes, and thus for maintaining cardiovascular health.

The study also suggests that the cocoa flavanols found in chocolate could be useful in enhancing brain function for people fighting fatigue, sleep deprivation, and even the effects of ageing.

Ian Macdonald, professor of metabolic physiology at The University of Nottingham, used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect increased activity in specific areas of the brain in individuals who had consumed a single drink of flavanol-rich cocoa. The effect is linked to dilation of cerebral blood vessels, allowing more blood - and therefore more oxygen - to reach key areas of the brain.

Flavanols are not only found in chocolate with a high cocoa content - they are also present in other substances such as red wine, green tea and blueberries.

Credits go to: Medical News

Did You Know High Cholesterol Can Effect Your Heart and Your Eyesight?

2009-08-05T10:43:00.001+01:00

We all know high cholesterol is bad for our health, especially our hearts. But did you know it can also affect your eyesight?
"People with high cholesterol have an increased risk for retinal vein occlusion,” Dr. Marc Werner, an ophthalmologist at the Stahl Eye Center in New York City, told FOXNews.com. “Blood has to come into the eye and come out of the eye in a normal situation. When you have high cholesterol, it lines the walls of those blood vessels.”

Credits: Foxnews.com

Why Is Dark Chocolate Good For Parkinson's

2009-08-05T10:19:00.000+01:00

Could dark chocolate help people with Parkinson's disease?
In a new trial, doctors are looking at the effect dark chocolate has on the shaking movements associated with the condition.
It follows research showing that Parkinson's patients eat more dark chocolate than those without the disease.
It is thought this might be because it is a form of self-medication. Parkinson's is caused by a loss of nerve cells in the part of the brain responsible for producing dopamine, the chemical that helps transmit messages to control and coordinate body movement.
If these nerve cells become damaged, the amount of dopamine is reduced and the messages to the body become slow and abnormal.
German researchers believe compounds in dark chocolate, such as phenylethylamine, increase levels of dopamine.

Credits go to: Daily Mail

Helpful links from the Expert Champion Physique Atheletes

2009-07-22T00:27:00.000+01:00

All the information you will ever need is built into these links:

The top 10 weight-loss foods

Fat Burning Foods and Foods that burn fat

Negative Foods

The Fat Loss Secrets of Champion Physique Athletes

Healthy Chocolate Science by Dr Steven Warren MD DPA

2009-07-21T23:29:00.000+01:00

How Can Dark Healthy Chocolate Benefit You?

How Can Dark Healthy Chocolate Benefit You?

You must only eat healthy unprocessed dark chocolate with only natural sweeteners like the acai berries or blueberries with the following factors:

a) It has to be alkalized

b) It has been dried and cool pressed rather than roasted

c) It should contain at least 70 percent pure cocoa solids

d) It must contain Cocoa butter not milk fats or hydrogenated oils) Contains low glycemic sweeteners ie raw cane sugar instead of refined.

1 - Heart -Flavanoids in chocolate have been shown to prevent a number of serious health threats to our hearts. Flavanoids are so powerful because of their antioxidant abilities. Antioxidant's help neutralize dangerous oxygen molecules found in the body. These are called free radicals and our bodies defense mechanism uses antioxidant's to prevent these molecules from causing tissue damage which ultimately leads to heart problems or cancer. A Dutch study examined the eating habits of 805 men ages 65 to 84 and found that those that ate the most flavanoid rich foods were half as likely to have heart disease and a third less likely to die from heart disease as those who ate the least.

2 - Cholesterol - LDL Cholesterol is bad and it's due again to free radicals in our bodies which damage our cholesterol. This is called oxidation and this it what causes cholesterol to stick to the walls of our arteries. We need to eat more fruit and vegetables high in antioxidant's such as beta carotene and vitamins C and E. These are great at protecting our body but unfortunately changing lifestyles and money problems prevent alot of people from eating these foods naturally and also depleting mineral levels in soil. Due to over farming, these days our vegetables are stripped of alot of there valuable antioxidant's. The French and Dutch are supposed to eat more of these than people in the U.K. and are therefore less prone to heart disease. Chocolate also contains fibre which when eaten helps stop your platelets sticking to the artery walls.

3 - Anti-Ageing Effect - Antioxidant's in chocolate help protect against free radicals which bring about oxidation which is like leaving an apple after its been peeled to the elements just to watch it go brown. antioxidant's protect against oxidation thus slowing down the ageing process.

4 - Inflammation/Pain - Chocolate has been found to reduce inflammation help with the prevention of migraines when taken regularly.

5 - Blood Pressure - The researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that dark chocolate intake reduced average blood pressure without changes in body weight, blood plasma levels of fats or sugars. Hypertension prevalence declined from 86 percent to 68 percent. Blood pressure was unchanged in the white chocolate group.

6 - Weight loss - Helps control the hunger pangs when taken 20 minutes before a meal to aid weight loss. One bite and you experience the feel good factor without feeling guilty. All in all, I seriously believe Xocai healthy chocolate has a part to play in our lives and should be taken more seriously when it comes to health benefits, if it can work for me it could work for you.

Click on the Book to download your copy of Healthy Chocolate Science by Dr. Steven in Warren in pdf format today

Migraine Relief at last

2009-05-10T14:37:00.000+01:00

I've suffered from migraines for as long as I can remember until over a year ago, when 3 little Nuggets changed my life. Trouble is migraines come in all shapes and forms, from the ones where you have to lock yourself in a darkened room, to ones where smell sets you off, to stress, to food and to the ones where its probably a mixture of all of them.

I could be awakened in the night by the start of a migraine, but I would probably ignore it hoping it would go away only to be wakened with a sudden urge later to be sick.
This would last all day and night even with nothing on my stomach, I could not even hold down water to take a tablet. This would go on for 2 to 3 days I use to pray it would come on a weekend so that I wouldn't have to stay off work again.

Everyone that knew me, also knew I could not make plans into the future just in case I had to let them down. Christmas was a nightmare knowing full well I would probably be sick on Christmas day or New Years Eve. If I did go out I could never tell whether it was the booze giving me a migraine or it was just my usual episode rearing up, so I stopped socialising because I could not just sit there with a coke while my friends were all making merry!

What clinched it for me was when my G.P. gave me a Prescription for Imigran injections which I had to do myself. Oh my god, I do not know how diabetics go on but, stabbing myself in the leg several times a day was the last straw. The first time I did it I was on my own, my heart was racing so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack. It kicked in quickly though and I fell asleep for 4 hours and woke up to need to go through it all again. Yes it did seem to block the pain but what good is it when I'm asleep every 4 hours it would not have down well with my employer that's for sure. I even tried some wafers called Maxalt you stick under your tongue, those were utterly useless and I had to suffer another 4 hours before I could take anything else. I tried pills you take on the onset of a migraine and then again if it did not go away all to no avail.

I just did not feel as though anyone was really trying to find out what had brought my migraines on, it was more or less left up to me to do a trial and error study. I did not want to be on tablets every day for the rest of my life. When in the back of my mind I felt there was a way of finding out what triggered them off. I'd had blood tests done to see if it was hormonal I even had my brain scanned for tumours but, they tested ok, but yet every time these were carried out I felt fine so its know wonder really. So anyway I decided to try strong pain killers off my GP first and that seemed to stop the sickness if I took them quick enough and numbed the pain, so after a lie down I could try and get through the day.

Since that day I have read up on health supplements and our diets to see what can be changed there. I wasn't exactly obese I am 5.8" tall and weighed 10.5 stone so in my G.P.'s eye's that was acceptable. I decided to go on a diet to educate myself on what it was that I should be eating not just to lose some weight. I went online and joined Tesco's diets I went for the high fibre diet because it was the closest to the type of food I already eat. Well that was a real eye opener which I enjoyed but it did not stop my migraines, but I did lose a stone in about 10 weeks.

I created a diary of things I noticed that stopped working prior to getting a migraine
1) Skin dryness
2) Bowel movements lessened
3) Nose drying up inside
4) Cramps

All this lead me to believe was that I was getting dehydrated so I drank more water daily but I'm afraid this didn't make any noticeable difference. Out of the 4 weeks my body ran fine for at lest 3 of them. One week sheer hell on earth and one week just feeling like death warmed up. As your probably aware yourself as you get older your body just doesn't bounce back the same. It felt like every month was like Groundhog day for me until I tried Xocai dark chocolate that's all!

Weird as it may seem to you that's all I started doing that was different to my day. I did not go mad like, I had a choice between Squares and Nuggets. the Nuggets were quite chunky. I limited myself to 3 a day as they were quite filling as well as delicious. Migraines did run in the family and know one had a clue as to why. They just kept trying all the new products that came out on the market. It was my sister who had heard about this chocolate and its benefit's first and she posted them onto me because she was having phenomenal benefits too and wanted to see if they would work for me also. Well I used to get migraines like clockwork and there was never any way I could make plans into the future because you can guarantee I would end up ill, Christmas was a nightmare.

Well anyway when my first migraine came around a couple of weeks after taking the chocolates and I was sick as usual, but I forced myself to try eating a chocolate (yuk) It was the last thing I felt like eating, but I did and low and behold the sickness went away. I was then able to take a migraine tablet later and after a while felt up to coping with my day to day tasks. I later had another 2 chocolates and I was feeling more like my old self again. The next day when I woke up I still didn't feel perfect so had another chocolate nugget and later I felt fine again.

I ate these chocolate's religiously for several months until I realised months were going by without a migraine attack. I found I couldn't remember when the last one was, that's how good it got and better.

Well to cut a long story short I've been eating healthy chocolate now for nearly 2 years and migraines are a thing of the past for me. The trouble is because I have had them for over 40 years I will always keep something in the medicine cabinet, but that's just me. What I like is the fact that what I'm taking isn't harming my body in any way and I don't have to worry about any side effects. The added bonuses to this story are, that I'd like to report that I also have more energy and managed to lose weight which I thought was unusual for someone that ate chocolate regularly! Chocolate I have been told has natural pain/inflammation blockers and is full of antioxidants which help fight off those free radicals we all have causing damage to our cells on a daily basis. Plus the added benefit is that it makes us feel good just by eating it for pleasure.

High Blood Pressure Prevention

2009-04-19T15:08:00.000+01:00

Heart disease effects 1 in 3 people. Studies show that with the right diet this can be prevented, Smoking, cholesterol, heart attack and scerosis. thus preventing cardiovascular disease. Antioxidants fight free radicals and prevent the cells from damage.

Chocolate is high in flavanoids are high in antioxidants and if you compare them to fruit and vegetables, tea, or wine brocolli, cherries, you will find that dark chocolate out weighs any of them . So if it would seem that if you incrase your diet of flavanoids intake you lesson your risk of cardiovascular disease alone. Endothelial function has been shown to improve with a daily dose of dark chocolate high in flavanoid.

Xocai Chocolate Nuggets

2009-04-14T17:10:00.001+01:00

Xocai Chocolate Nuggets are by far my favourites, they are quite chuncky and have a delicious taste. Each nugget weights 12 grams and has an ORAC of 3,120 - There are 100 Nuggets per case and they are suitable for Vegetarians and are considered a clean product.
No Artificial colours, flavours, preservatives and no sucraiose.
Xocai Nuggets are the only chocolate bar, dark or milk, in the marketplace that has printed on the packaging the ORAC value or antioxidant content of the product.

All new Preferred Customers are required to purchase a Starter kit and a case of Xocai at time of sign-up. The cost of the kit is $10 and the case of Xocai $135.00 (But if Preferred Customers sign up for Auto Ship they pay Wholesale Price on their Auto Ship Orders) plus applicable shipping and handling fees.

If you do not want to sign up as a Preferred Customer just yet, then you can still purchase your Xocai X Power Square but at the Retail price of $150.00 plus shipping and handling

To make a Purchase of Xocai Nuggets
or gather more information click here

Xocai X Power Squares

2009-04-14T16:42:00.000+01:00

Xocai power Square are great light and easy to eat each one contains 70 calories but has an ORAC value of 3,582 per square. The medical profession say we should have between 3,000-5,000 per day and you can easily obtain that by eating 2 of these squares every day. Each case contains 140 squares more than ample for a months supply.

All new Preferred Customers are required to purchase a Starter kit and a case of Xocai at time of sign-up. The cost of the kit is $10 and the case of Xocai $135.00 (But if Preferred Customers sign up for Auto Ship they pay Wholesale Price on their Auto Ship Orders) plus applicable shipping and handling fees.

If you do not want to sign up as a Preferred Customer you can still purchase your Xocai X Power Square at the Retail price of $150.00 plus shipping and handling.

To Make a Purchase of Xocai Nuggets
or gather more information click here

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Dr Mary Engler - UCFS University - Speaks on Benefits of Dark Chocolate

2009-04-14T16:21:00.000+01:00

This video is great but quite long because it's very educational, as Dr. Mary Engler goes through everything in fine detail. Don't be put off you can always come back to it later or even just pause. She's I suggest you stop what you doing for a while get a cofee and put your feet up.

BENEFITS OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS

2009-04-14T16:15:00.002+01:00

VITAMIN A

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Vitamin A Diets high in carotenoids (some of which the body can convert into vitamin A) are linked with a reduced risk of some cancers Found In: Retinols - oily fish, liver, eggs, milk, cheese, & butter.Carotenoids -carrots, broccoli, dark green leafy vegetables, sweet red peppers, pumpkins, mangoes, canteloupe melons, and dried apricots.

VITAMIN C

2009-04-14T16:13:00.002+01:00

Vitamin C
Scavenges for free radicals and regenerates the antioxidant potential of vitamin E after it has reacted with free radicals.

Found In:
Citrus fruit, kiwi fruit, soft fruit such as blackcurrants and strawberries
potatoes, green & red peppers, tomatoes, bean sprout uts and leafy green vegetables

VITAMINS E

2009-04-14T16:13:00.001+01:00

Vitamin E
Helps to prevent oxidation by free radicals of polyunsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes; the more polyunsaturated fats you eat, the more vitamin E you need to protect them from oxidation.

Found In:
Vegetable oils such as sunflower and nut oils, margarine, almonds, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, tuna, salmon and avocados.

MANGANESE

2009-04-14T16:12:00.001+01:00

Manganese
Present in enzymes

Found In:
Nuts, brown rice, whole grain bread, pulses, cereals

COPPER

2009-04-14T16:11:00.001+01:00

Copper
Present in many enzymes that help protect against free radical damage, required for healthy bone growth, for connective tissue formation, and to aid iron absorption from food.

Found In:
Shellfish, liver, and whole grain cereals

SELENIUM

2009-04-14T16:10:00.000+01:00

Selenium
Present in enzymes that protects DNA against free radical damage, deficiency increases the risk of prostrate cancer

Found In:
Brazil nuts, meat and offal, seafood and seaweed, avocados whole grains and sunflower seeds also contain selenium although levels depend on the soil in which they were grown

ZINC

2009-04-14T16:09:00.001+01:00

Zinc
Present in enzymes that protect against free radical damage

Found In:
Shellfish (particularly oysters) lean meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products, pumpkin seeds, nuts and whole grains

Xocai Healthy Chocolate Testimonial

2009-04-13T00:46:00.000+01:00

WHICH FOODS CONTAIN VITAMINS & MINERALS THAT YOU CAN BENEFIT FROM?

2009-04-08T17:26:00.000+01:00

Vitamins, minerals and compounds known as phytochemicals in plant food provide a valuable extra supply, so additional dietary sources are essential for the maintenance of good health.
Healthy chocolate nuggets are packed full of Flavanoids and have 3,120 ORAC per nugget. They also contain Acai berry and blueberries. the Acai berry alone has more than 14 times more antioxidant's than raw spinach and 10 to 30 times more anthocyanins than red wine.

Vitamin A
Diets high in carotenoids (some of which the body can convert into vitamin A) are linked with a reduced risk of some cancers

Found In:
Retinols - oily fish, liver, eggs, milk, cheese, & butter.Carotenoids -carrots, broccoli, dark green leafy vegetables, sweet red peppers, pumpkins, mangoes, canteloupe melons, and dried apricots.

Vitamin C
Scavenges for free radicals and regenerates the antioxidant potential of vitamin E after it has reacted with free radicals.

Found In:
Citrus fruit, kiwi fruit, soft fruit such as blackcurrants and strawberries
potatoes, green & red peppers, tomatoes, bean sprout uts and leafy green vegetables.

Vitamin E
Helps to prevent oxidation by free radicals of polyunsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes; the more polyunsaturated fats you eat, the more vitamin E you need to protect them from oxidation.

Found In:
Vegetable oils such as sunflower and nut oils, margarine, almonds, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, tuna, salmon and avocados.

Manganese
Present in enzymes

Found In:
Nuts, brown rice, whole grain bread, pulses, cereals

Copper
Present in many enzymes that help protect against free radical damage, required for healthy bone growth, for connective tissue formation, and to aid iron absorption from food.

Found In:
Shellfish, liver, and whole grain cereals

Selenium
Present in enzymes that protects DNA against free radical damage, deficiency increases the risk of prostrate cancer

Found In:
Brazil nuts, meat and offal, seafood and seaweed, avocados whole grains and sunflower seeds also contain selenium although levels depend on the soil in which they were grown

Zinc
Present in enzymes that protect against free radical damage
Found In:
Shellfish (particularly oysters) lean meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products, pumpkin seeds, nuts and whole grains

HOW CAN XOCAI DARK HEALTHY CHOCOLATE BENEFIT YOU?

2009-04-08T17:18:00.000+01:00

If you want to buy chocolate that is good for you it must have these following factors:

a) It has to be alkalized
b) It has been dried and cool pressed rather than roasted
c) It contains at least 70 percent pure cocoa solidsd) It contains Cocoa butter not milk fats or hydrogenated oilse) Contains low glycemic sweeteners ie raw cane sugar instead of refined

1 - Heart -Flavanoids in chocolate have been shown to prevent a number of serious health threats to our hearts. Flavanoids are so powerful because of their antioxidant abilities. Antioxidant's help neutralize dangerous oxygen molecules found in the body. These are called free radicals and our bodies defense mechanism uses antioxidant's to prevent these molecules from causing tissue damage which ultimately leads to heart problems or cancer.
A Dutch study examined the eating habits of 805 men ages 65 to 84 and found that those that ate the most flavanoid rich foods were half as likely to have heart disease and a third less likely to die from heart disease as those who ate the least.

2 - Cholesterol - LDL Cholesterol is bad and it's due again to free radicals in our bodies which damage our cholesterol. This is called oxidation and this it what causes cholesterol to stick to the walls of our arteries. We need to eat more fruit and vegetables high in antioxidant's such as beta carotene and vitamins C and E. These are great at protecting our body but unfortunately changing lifestyles and money problems prevent alot of people from eating these foods naturally and also depleting mineral levels in soil. Due to over farming, these days our vegetables are stipped of alot of there valuable antioxidant's. The French and Dutch are supposed to eat more of these than people in the U.K. and are therefore less prone to heart disease.
Chocolate also contains fibre which when eaten helps stop your platelets sticking to the artery walls.

3 - Anti-Ageing Effect - Antioxidant's in chocolate help protect against free radicals which bring about oxidation which is like leaving an apple after its been peeled to the elements just to watch it go brown. antioxidant's protect against oxidation thus slowing down the ageing process.

4 - Inflammation/Pain - Chocolate has been found to reduce inflammation help with the prevention of migraines when taken regularly.

5 - Blood Pressure - The researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that dark chocolate intake reduced average blood pressure without changes in body weight, blood plasma levels of fats or sugars. Hypertension prevalence declined from 86 percent to 68 percent. Blood pressure was unchanged in the white chocolate group.

6 - Weight loss - Helps control the hunger pangs when taken 20 minutes before a meal to aid weight loss. One bite and you experience the feel good factor without feeling guilty.