Sweetheart Recipe for V-Day

February 14, 2011
Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS

Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS

Award-winning nutritionist and New York Times bestselling author.

57305421Two tasty “super” foods help protect your heart—without packing on pounds.

Who doesn’t like chocolate? New research puts it right up there with acai and blueberries as a “super” fruit. You may be delighted to know that dark chocolate has significantly more antioxidants and flavonoids than the juice of these fruits.

In fact, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study found that chocolate is linked to lower incidence of coronary heart disease. After following almost 5,000 Americans 25 and older, scientists concluded that eating dark chocolate is clearly heart healthy.

Phenol-rich chocolate has even been found to ease chronic fatigue symptoms, which I find extremely interesting since a surprising number of my clients feel tired all the time. If you or someone you love craves chocolate, this may actually be your body’s cry for minerals like magnesium that bolster the easily stressed-out adrenal glands.

A box of chocolates is a tried-and-true Valentine’s Day gift. But it’s awfully high in sugar, which isn’t good for your heart—or your adrenals.

For a healthy dose of chocolate, blend this special smoothie for your sweetheart—or yourself. My recipe includes another slimming super food, whey protein, to boost cardiovascular benefits without adding unwanted fat.

Chocolate Sweetheart Smoothie
(Makes 1 serving)
1 cup fresh or frozen strawberries or raspberries
1 scoop Fat Flush Chocolate Whey Protein
8 ounces plain filtered water
1 tablespoon flaxseed oil
¼ teaspoon Stevia Plus, to taste (optional)
Ice cubes (optional)
Place all ingredients in a blender and combine until smooth.

The Fat Flush Chocolate Whey Protein in this recipe supplies delicious, nutritious chocolate. But instead of sugar, it uses the sweet herb stevia—a safe sugar substitute that’s been used in Japan for decades. This whey protein is free of artificial sweeteners, GMOs, heavy metals, hormones, lactose, pesticides, and other toxic chemicals.

And Fat Flush Chocolate Whey Protein contains healing substances like lactoferrin (an iron-modulating protein) and immunoglobulins—which contain immune-enhancing elements—plus natural appetite suppressing glycomacropeptides.

Watching Your Waistline?
Best of all, this chocolate comes in a hard-to-find non-denatured form of muscle-building, weight-lowering protein from grass-fed, disease-free herds. Unheated whey protein powder is a natural source of essential fats, including CLA (conjugated linolenic acid)—that further trims your waistline and protects fragile amino acids.

“I have been using Fat Flush Whey Protein for a couple of years now,” says Diana in Kentucky, “and I have to say there is no way I could go without it. Not only does it do a great job mixing up in smoothies, but it is also the best tasting protein powder I have ever used.”

Super Protein
A new study in the journal Clinical Nutrition shows that obese women who used whey protein, along with a healthy diet, lowered both total cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Other research shows that combining whey protein with leucine—just one of the branched-chain amino acids found in Fat Flush Whey Protein—for eight weeks increases lean body mass and even boosts brain power.

Young people who are starting to develop hypertension can normalize their blood pressure—both systolic and diastolic readings—by drinking a whey-rich beverage daily for six weeks, says Washington State University scientists. And a randomized double-blind study shows that whey protein improves blood vessel function too.

Remember the song “Your Love Is Better than Chocolate?” Now with Fat Flush Chocolate Whey Protein, you can lavish both your special someone—and yourself!

Sources:
The Fat Flush Plan
Hot Times, How to Eat Well, Live Healthy, and Feel Sexy During the Change

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21299842
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21288612
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21226137
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20975109
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20968113
www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Whey-proteins-show-blood-pressure-lowering-powers

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Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS, is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty books including The Fat Flush Plan series and her latest book, Radical Metabolism. She’s been rewriting the rules of nutrition for more than 40 years and is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the field of diet, detox and women’s health issues. 

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1 Comment

  1. Alicia

    Dark chocolate that has not been processed with alkali will retain the anti-oxidants. If it has alkali in the ingredient list then the anti oxidants are gone and it is just a waste of calories with no benefit. Theo Chocolate in Seattle makes an air processed chocolate and they are certified fair trade and organic.

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