What are free radicals and antioxidants? What do they have to do with chocolate and your health?

     Here is a scary thought...how long you live and how fast you age is directly related to the amount of free radicals a person has in his or her body. We have heard all over the media, from friends, family members, or from strangers talking about "free radicals, antioxidants, and super foods" but what exactly are these scientific terms? Of course if you were to ask anyone in the science profession they could give you a long explanation that has to do with the structure of a molecule or atom...having to do something with an unpaired electron...blah, blah, blah...but seriously what exactly is a free radical!?     
For the sake of non-science geeks out there lets simplify these terms. First...lets imagine rust on a piece of metal. Your body is much like this piece of metal and free radicals are much like the rust. When you have too many free radicals present in your body it can cause your body to rust. When your body "rusts" you get all sorts of degenerative disorders such as autoimmune disorders, cancer, acceleration of the aging process, diabetes (in some cases), cardiac disease, and much more. Recently scientific studies have also found that excess free radicals in your body is also linked to obesity.
      Another question is...how do we get free radicals and how can we get rid of them? Free radicals are a natural part of life. There is no getting around them, and we actually need a healthy amount to help our immune system defend itself. Free radicals come from the air we breath, the sun's rays, and even our own body's metabolism. We wind up with problems when we have too many of them which is why we are hearing so much about these things called antioxidants.
     What exactly are these things called "antioxidants" that we hear so much about in the news and media? Antioxidants are essential to have in our diet to neutralize free radicals so they are no longer harmful to our body. Antioxidants are found in many foods such as blueberries, artichokes, raspberries, and especially raw unprocessed cacao (cocoa) and the Acai berry. Eating a diet rich in antioxidants can help you to shed those unwanted pounds, fight disease, disorders, and it can also help you to better your overall health and wellness.
     So what does Healthy Chocolate have to do with free radicals and antioxidants? To combat excess free radicals a company named MXI corporation created a line of Xocai Healthy Chocolate products. These products combine the benefits of unprocessed cacao and the Acai berry. Healthy Chocolate is all natural, unprocessed, uncooked, and it does not contain bad fats, bad sugars, and any caffeine, waxes, or fillers. These chocolate products are the most powerful antioxidant-rich foods that are on the market today. Clinical studies and scientific research is actually proving that Healthy Chocolate can help with weight-loss, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, low energy, autoimmune disorders, inflammation, pain, and the list keeps going on.

     So how exactly can someone tell if their foods are high in antioxidants? You can look at the ORAC score! The ORAC score stands for the Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity...to simplify this term...ORAC just means how potent the food's antioxidants are and how effective they are in neutralizing free radicals. To put things into perspective it is highly recommended that the average person consume 10,000 ORAC's a day. You can get these numbers by eating  12 lbs of tomatoes a day, 1.91 lbs of spinach a day, or 2 lbs of raspberries a day...or you could eat 3 pieces of healthy chocolate a day! If you factor in the amount of veggie eating you would have to do plus the amount of money you would have to pay I don't think the most devoted veggie fans would pass up the chocolate offer.
     Some of you are probably wondering how does Xocai actually come up with these ORAC values? Well, they actually allow a third party laboratory to test our products for their antioxidant content. Brunswick Laboratories is an independent laboratory that specializes in testing products for many different organizations for the sake of "Improving Health Through Science". Brunswick Laboratories is so convinced of our product quality that they even have their Laboratory Seal printed on every Xocai product box!
     I'd like to invite you at this time to take a look at my website http://www.healthychocolatebusiness.org and request to try a free sample of product or order a box today! Start bettering your health now and for those of you looking to supplement your income or to become financially free make sure to check out our amazing business opportunity.

Tehane