{"id":5632,"date":"2012-11-05T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/11\/05\/why-raw-chocolate-rox-for-athletes\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:07:22","slug":"why-raw-chocolate-rox-for-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/11\/05\/why-raw-chocolate-rox-for-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Raw Chocolate Rox for Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is excerpted from my book,\u00a0“How America Can Bike and Grow Rich” and the Podcast I did with the people at Sunfood<\/a>, the purveyors of Raw Chocolate and other amazing super foods:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Cacao Powder\u00a0<\/strong>was once so revered by the ancient Mayan and<\/div>\n
Aztec civilizations for its power as a food that it was used instead<\/div>\n
of gold as money. What is important to understand is that as raw<\/div>\n
chocolate in its purest form, it does not have an<\/div>\n
acceptable taste on its own. Toward that end, most of the<\/div>\n
chocolate most Americans consume is cooked and so processed<\/div>\n
and so\u00a0 covered up with sugars and other taste enhancers that its<\/div>\n
many benefits are negated.<\/div>\n
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While cacao may not have specific\u00a0 performance enhancing<\/div>\n
properties\u00a0 like some of the others foods I mixed it with, it, when<\/div>\n
viewed as a food, in its raw form, it is loaded with vital nutrients. It<\/div>\n
is the highest natural source of iron, magnesium and chromium.<\/div>\n
This not to mention that it has the highest concentration of<\/div>\n
antioxidants of any food in the world. In addition, it is the only food<\/div>\n
that contains the endorphin Anandamide that relaxes the body<\/div>\n
after exercise. As such, it was my nightly RAW chocolate bar that<\/div>\n
rewarded me well for some of the punishment I pushed myself<\/div>\n
through. This can be further illustrated by the fact that for 40<\/div>\n
years, starting in the 1930\u2019s, heart attack sufferers were injected<\/div>\n
with theobromine, the smooth muscle relaxant found in chocolate<\/div>\n
that also dilates blood vessels.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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