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Chocolate Tea and Immune Health

The cacao plant grows abundantly in Panama where the Kuna Indians live. Drinking about 40 cups of cocoa a week has been a part of the Kuna Indians tradition and way of life for hundreds of years. When a team of Harvard Medical School visited the Kuna people were surprised to see that less than 10% of the population suffers from heart disease, hypertension, stroke, cancer or diabetes. The Kuna people were also to have longer lives than their counterparts in Panama. It was not a hereditary immunity as Kuna Indians who migrated to other parts of the world and has adopted a more "Western" diet "were not immune to heart disease. What is it that keeps the Kuna Indians as healthy? Dr. Hollenberg, who led the study, proposed that a diet that includes plenty of pure cocoa could be the reason behind this unusual protective immunity! 1-2

Power-Antioxidant Support the body's ability to neutralize free radicals
Cocoa contains flavonoids and is rich in antioxidants called procyanidins and epicatechin. These flavonoids also found in green tea, especially the powerful antioxidant known as epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), resveratrol is another powerful antioxidant produced naturally by red grapes in response to fungal infection.

Antioxidants work at the cellular level and is believed to counteract the harmful effects of free radical activity. the activity of free radicals disrupts the molecular activity leading to disruption of the cell, cell mutation and is the main reason for tissue and organ damage, including disease. Antioxidants help support immune health in the most basic cellular level.

In today's world, stress, pollution, processed foods or takeaways convenient, a diet rich in carbohydrates, sugars, saturated fats, even a lifestyle sedentary can create an overload of free radical activity in the body. The body's immune system has difficulty keeping up with the fight against overload, and as result weakens the immune system. We are, feeling fatigued and susceptible to various diseases. A diet rich in antioxidants can help the body to neutralize the activity of free radicals.

Numerous studies show that resveratrol and antioxidants in cocoa and green tea can help the body to support the immune system ways.This several brands of chocolate tea a large drink to support immune health!

Help to stimulate production of immune cells
Studies show that there may be a strong relationship between intake of cocoa and the production of thymocytes. Thymocytes are white blood cells produced in the thymus and are precursors of T cells T cells are essential for immune function of our body, and are beneficial in reducing the risk of disease.3

Green tea contains a high amount of an amino acid called L-theanine. L-theanine is known to enhance immunity body. In a Harvard study, people who drank five cups of green tea a day were five times more anti-virus interferon in the blood others who did not drink green tea.

Tea polysaccharides (TPS), a major component in green tea stimulate the production of cytokines in the bone marrow. Cytokines are used in cellular communication and are critical to the body's immune response to pathogens.4

Support to capacity body to guard against viruses, bacteria and fungi
Resveratrol and EGCG inhibits the replication of influenza virus. Also exhibit anti-microbial and antifungal properties. Clinical trials indicate that resveratrol plays an inhibitory role on the herpes simplex virus, influenza virus, dermatophytes and bacterial pathogens skin and all types of fungal infections. Green tea has been studied for its inhibitory action on adenovirus, responsible for colds.5-12

Help to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk
The antioxidants in green tea and chocolate and resveratrol have been individually studied for their role in supporting cardiovascular health. They indicate that support heart health by:

• Help improve blood circulation by stimulating the production of nitric oxide. This relaxes the blood vessels and helps increase vasodilation ,13-14
• Help control pressure 15-16 arterial
• Help 1917 to 1919 to prevent blood clots
• Help regulate cholesterol levels good and help reduce plaque formation in arteries.20-21

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References:

1. Hypertension, the Kuna, and the epidemiology of flavanols. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2006, 47 Suppl 2: S103-9, discussion 119-21.PMID: 16,794,446
2. Vascular action of cocoa flavanols in humans: the roots of story.J Cardiovasc Pharmacol. 2006, 47 Suppl 2: S99-102, discussion S119-21.PMID: 16,794,463
3. cocoa-enriched diet improves antioxidant enzyme activity and modulates the composition of lymphocytes in the thymus of young rats. J Agric Food Chem 2007 August 8, 1955 (16) :6431-8. Epub 2007 July 14. PMID: 17630760
4. Epigallocatechin Gallate modulates cytokine production by bone marrow derived dendritic cells stimulated with lipopolysaccharide or Muramyldipeptide, or infected with Legionella pneumophila Cells Experimental Biology and Medicine 230:645-651 (2005). Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine.
5. Inhibition of replication of influenza A virus by resveratrol. PMID: 15838800
6. Resveratrol inhibition of the replication of herpes simplex virus. Antiviral Res October 1999, 43 (3) :145-55. PMID: 10551373
7. Antimicrobial effect of resveratrol on dermatophytes and bacterial pathogens of the skin. Biochem Pharmacol. 2002 January 15, 63 (2) :99-104. PMID: 11841782.
8. Fungicidal effect of resveratrol in human infectious fungi. Arc Pharm Res. In May 2005, 28 (5) :557-60. PMID: 15974442
9. Inhibition of adenovirus infection and adenain by tea catechins Green, antiviral Res 2003 Apr; 58 (2) :167-73. PMID: 12742577
10. Specific formulation of Camellia sinensis Prevents symptoms cold and flu and increases T cell function: A randomized, double-blind, Journal of placebo-controlled studies of the American College of Nutrition, vol. 26, No. 5, 445-452 (2007), American College of Nutrition
11. Antiviral effect of catechins in green tea on influenza virus, Antiviral Res 2005 Nov; 68 (2) :66-74. Epub 2005 9 August. PMID: 16137775
12. Multiple effects of green tea catechins on the activity antifungal antifungal against Candida albicans.J Antimicrob Chemother. 2004 Feb; 53 (2) :225-9. Epub 2003 December 19. PMID: 14688042
13. Resveratrol, a phytoalexin present in red wine polyphenol, enhances expression and activity of endothelial nitric oxide synthase, Circulation. 2002; 106:1652-1658, American Heart Association, Inc.
14. Tea catechins inhibit cholesterol oxidation accompanying oxidation low density lipoprotein in vitro. Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol. 2001 Feb; 128 (2) :153-64.
15. Cocoa reduces blood pressure and insulin resistance and improves endothelium-dependent vasodilation in hypertensives, Hypertension. 2005, 46:398-405, American Heart Association, Inc.
16. Prevention of hypertension, cardiovascular damage and endothelial dysfunction with green tea extracts. Am J Hypertens. December 2007, 20 (12) :1321-8.
17. Cocoa inhibits platelet activation and function Am J Clin Nutr 2000, 72:30-5.
18. Resveratrol attenuates TNF-induced activation of coronary artery endothelial cells: role of NF-B inhibition, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 291: H1694-H1699, 2006.
19. Antithrombotic activities of green tea catechins and (-)-epigallocatechin gallate. Thromb Res November 1, 1999, 96 (3) :229-37.
20. Effectiveness of moderate consumption of green tea in antioxidant status and plasma lipid profile in humans. J Nutr Biochem. 2005 Mar; 16 (3) :144-9.
21. Penn State (2001, October 24). Cocoa and Dark Chocolate Show Positive effects on LDL – But Not Shun vegetables. ScienceDaily.

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