Chocolate has been drunk for thousands of years, most archeologists agree, but it was the Mayans who really got the ball rolling by developing savory chocolate drinks.
These days, hot chocolate is a heated beverage that contains chocolate or cocoa powder, heated milk or water and sugar.
Latest research on chocolate focuses on the antioxidants present in its chemical base. Antioxidants seem to protect against heart disease, especially originating LDLs and some cancers.
Hot chocolate is thought of as longtime, popular drink for pleasure and for all ages. But medical researchers are discovering that hot chocolate boast health benefits that may boost longevity, thanks to the disease-fighting antioxidants in the cocoa.
Harvard Medical School research indicates that drinking 2 cups of hot chocolate per day helps preserve brain health and preserve brain decline in older people.
Research on hot chocolates
Technically, any liquid intended for drinking is a beverage so named by a word derived from French and Latin verbs meaning ‘to drink.’ Healthy beverages are beverages with health benefits that attribute by its nutritional value. The use of healthy beverage for promoting health and relieving symptom is as old as the practice of medicine.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
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