Happy Friday, everyone! My friend at Beach Treasures came up with some valuable info about another way to get benefits from chocolate. Enjoy!
Just in case you missed it, there’s even more good news for beachcombers!
First wine, and now chocolate for sun protection… It keeps getting better and better.
As if we needed another reason to eat chocolate: German researchers have shown that ingesting types rich in cocoa solids and flavonoids—dark chocolate—can fight skin cancer! Their findings are only preliminary because they come from a trial of just 24 women who were recruited to add cocoa to their breakfasts every day for about 3 months. (Why, oh why, wasn’t I one of them?)
…Moreover, after 12 weeks of consuming the flavanol-rich cocoa, the women’s skin was 16 percent denser, 11 percent thicker, 13 percent moister, 30 percent less rough, and 42 percent less scaly than it was at the beginning of the experiment. Although the mechanism for most of these benefits remains unclear, the Düsseldorf researchers suspect that improved blood flow was…
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Yay for chocolate! Maybe someday ~ someone will do a study and find out that shopping is great for sun protection too! We can dream. 😉
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Shopping might not qualify as sun protection but we all know it’s retail therapy so it’s good for us, right????
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Of course! I totally believe in mental health days. You certainly can’t get a sunburn in Saks!
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YES!
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Great news! Andrew Weil once wrote something about dark chocolate, red wine, and green tea is what he uses (and recommends) for flue prevention because of all their antioxidants. Now, this skin study!! For me, it’s even better news because three of my family members had/have melanoma. I get Trader Joe’s 72% bars and have a couple squares a day. Love it! Hugs!
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Yum, this is a grocery shopping day for me, I’ll be sure to get some chocolate at Traders. Thanks for the reminder! We drink a lot of green tea too; I esp love yogi ginger tea tho, hot or cold!
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Me too on the ginger tea. I used to put a crystallized ginger cube in it until I heard that there was lead in the ginger so stopped using it. Now that was a real treat. Happy shopping!
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