Your Love Affair…
with chocolate started long before your first bite, and has been spreading joy and feel-good sensations dating back over 5,300 years.
Ruins of broken pottery and ceramic dishware retrieved in South America revealed cacao grain residue where the inhabitants imbibed powdered cacao from their domesticated Theobroma Cacao Trees.
The Greeks dubbed the chocolate beans in the Theobroma cacao pods “food of the gods” due to all its hailed benefits, which have been repeatedly ascertained by reputable studies and has expanded its sweet reputation.
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Cacao morphed into a chewable luxury in 1828, when Cadbury placed fanciful stylized pieces of decadent chocolate in a pretty heat-shaped box for sale.
These tasty delights are also loaded with powerful antioxidants, polyphenols, flavonoids, epicatechins, and more, and propels their value higher than the touted and revered green tea.
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These special phytochemicals decrease platelet adhesion and thereby reduce heart attacks, lower LDL cholesterol with its heart friendly stearic acid, slash blood pressure by relaxing and dilating arterial walls allowing for increased blood flow with minimal heart effort, and abates atrial fibrillation.
What a health wallop!
St. Valentine’s Day honors one or two Christian martyrs bearing the eponymous name. Roman Emperor Claudius decreed that young men could not marry because they made superior soldiers compared to their married brethren.
St. Valentine, a Catholic Priest in the third century, thought this was unfair and defied the emperor by secretively marrying the lovelorn men, and thereby died in the name of love. God is love, and as the Creator of All That Is, manifested love throughout His universe. Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!!!!!! May it be filled with LOVE and chocolate!
~ ” We love because he first loved us,” 1 John 4:19. And therefore, “Do everything in love,” 1 Corinthians 16:14. ~
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