David Wolfe & Shazzie
Naked Chocolate
Finally, the truth about chocolate! No expense was spared to
bring you Naked Chocolate, an extraordinary raw foods / superfoods book. Naked
Chocolate is the product of years of research into superfood nutrition.
Absolutely stunning full-color presentation. 2005, 248 pgs., softcover,
full-color photographs throughout the entire book. David Wolfe, America's
leading nutrition guru, and Shazzie, the UK's most progressive health educator,
have teamed up to bring you Naked Chocolate!
Yes, raw, organic chocolate is good for you. In fact, David
Wolfe and Shazzie demonstrate it is the best food ever. In these pages, you will
discover the astonishing truth about the world's greatest food.
Chocolate grows on trees! All chocolate comes from cacao beans - the
seeds of the cacao fruit which grow on jungle trees. Cacao beans taste like dark
chocolate because they are dark chocolate! David Wolfe and Shazzie introduce
the phenomenal, enlightening power of cacao beans engulfed in the magic of
chocolate. And they show us how to use extraordinary chocolate recipes to
achieve higher and higher states of pure joy!
Naked Chocolate contains over 60 original, enticing, mouthwatering
chocolate recipes.
Learn and experience how chocolate - The Food of the Gods - allows
you to:
* Eat more while losing weight * Heal and soothe your heart * Increase
your sensuality, love life and beauty * Double your joy * Nourish your
intellect * Bring prosperity into your life * Experience the world's
most wonderful aphrodisiacs * Create the most outrageous beverages, desserts,
cakes, ice creams and other fantastic tasty delights
Special Notice: The recipes in these pages allow you to craft
that perfect alchemical potion that causes all heaven to break loose.
Warning: Reading this book may cause you to have the best
day ever!
Table of Contents:
Introduction - David - Shazzie - Cacao's
Properties
Part I: Cacao - Legends of Cacao - Theobroma
Cacao - A Brief History of Chocolate - Money Does Grow On Trees
Part II: Scientific Properties of Chocolate - Chemical
Composition of Cacao - Magnesium - Antioxidants - Methylxanthines:
Theobromine and Caffeine - Phenylethylamine - Anandamide (the Bliss
Chemical) - Neurotransmitter Modulating Agents - Tryptophan
Part III: Exotic Properties of Chocolate -
Aphrodisia - Nobility - Nature's Prozac (Anti-Depressant Properties of
Cacao) - Tryptamines, Phenylalanines, Lactones and Cannabinoids -
Chocolate as Medicine - Chocolate and Pregnancy - Chocolate Yoga -
Overcoming Chocolate Addictions
Part IV: Chocolate Alchemy - Curing by Contraries -
Naked Chocolate - Organic Food - The Ancient Chocolate Drink - Cacao's
Best Friends - Other Old and New Friends of Cacao - What to do with Cacao
Beans - The New Cacao Beverage - The Recipes
Appendices - Chocolate for the Skin - The Chocolate
Religion - Finding the Best Chocolate - A Secret History of Chocolate
The Last Bits - References - Credits - Shazzie's
Projects and Resources - David Wolfe's Projects and Resources - About the
Authors
"Naked Chocolate is fantastic! I love it very much. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you a million times." - Dr. Patrick
Flanagan, Inventor of Crystal Energy, MegaHydrate and the Neurophone, voted one
of America's top 10 scientists (at the age of 17!)
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