CHOCOLATE FOR HEALTH

THE AMAZING INGREDIENTS & BENEFITS

OF

CHOCOLATE
by Russ Michael

Russ Michael is a best-selling author of more than 30 BLOCKBUSTER self-help books Visit www.RussMichaeleBooks.com

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CHOCOLATE For HEALTH The Amazing Ingredients & Benefits of CHOCOLATE 2008 by Russ Michael. All rights remain in force. Removing this notice forfeits all rights to recourse. Copyright strictly enforced 2008 by Russ Michael Front Cover Art: A highly talented volunteer Russ Michael eBook Team artist who prefers to remain anonymous created the beautiful front cover art for this book and for most of the other Russ Michael eBooks. The artist states: I just have to say this. Because of this immense effort that I have been putting forth, it has kept me coherent, sane and remaining in the light. It has kept me happy, moving forward in creative endeavors, and most of all, ALIVE. Thank you, dear Michael, for your giving freely to all that have ears to hear, and eyes to see of yourself, and that you are fulfilling the reasons that you came back into this life at 18 years old. Whenever you embark on ANY journey, you do it in a BIG way and that is incredible. A wonderful example to ALL Edited by Pamela Leach email: pamramadama@earthlink.net TEL: 616-642-0308

Published by: Russ Michael Books P.O. Box 654 Virginia Beach, VA 23451 USA

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Dedication

For the Love of Chocolate

Dedicated with love and gratitude to each and every one of my companion ardent chocolate lovers on Earth. May your family, friends and everyone you know be pleased and uplifted to discover you are a bearer of such wonderful good news about the factual high nutritional value of CHOCOLATE. Bless us all.

Ed Robertson says, Finally a real save the Earth motivation: Save the Earth; It's the only planet with chocolate.

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MEDICAL DISCLAIMER

LEGAL NOTICE: The Author specifically invokes the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and of the press in this book without prejudice. All information given in this book is presented for educational and research purposes only under the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution for the United States of America, and should not in any way be used as a substitute for the advice of a physician or other licensed health care practitioner. The statements contained herein have not been evaluated by the FDA. The products discussed herein are not intended to diagnose, cure, prevent or treat any disease. In no way should this information be considered to be a substitute for competent health care by a professional of your choice. If you use this information without your doctor's approval, you are simply prescribing for yourself, which is your constitutional right.

Table of Contents
Preface by Author ................................................... ix 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Are You A CHOCOLATE Queen or A CHOCOLATE KingLike Me .................... 1 The World Is Full of CHOCOLATE Lovers .... 5 Who Can Resist Tasty, Sweet, MouthWatering Quality CHOCOLATE .................. 10 Look Out! Heating Foods is Known to Destroy Nutrient Value .................................. 18 The Soothing Sedative and Calming Value of CHOCOLATE ................................... 20 Beware of Inferior CHOCOLATE Bars or CHOCOLATE Drink Products .................. 24 CHOCOLATE Lovers UNITE ........................ 26 ORAC, HORAC or NORAC Scientific Nutrient Value Gauge .................................. 36 Common Foods With a High ORAC Value ................................................................ 40 CHOCOLATE Has the Highest ORAC Nutrient Value ................................................ 42 What Doctors Say About CHOCOLATE ...... 44 Historical Known Medical Uses of CHOCOLATE .................................................. 50 Are Deadly Cancer Cells Fearful of CHOCOLATE? ................................................ 54 The Many Health Benefits of CHOCOLATE .................................................. 58

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CHOCOLATE and a Happy, Healthy Heart .............................................................. 60 CHOCOLATE Discovered To Lower Blood Pressure ............................................. 68 Can CHOCOLATE Help Diabetics Feel Better? ..................................................... 70 Does Eating CHOCOLATE Daily Help You LOSE WEIGHT? .................................... 74 CHOCOLATE & Age Reversal .................... 78 Where and What Does CHOCOLATE Come From? .................................................... 80 The Divine CHOCOLATE Bean ..................... 82 Medical Values of Pure High-Grade CHOCOLATE .................................................. 84 The Ultra Value of Cold-Pressed CHOCOLATE .................................................. 88 The Fun of Eating CHOCOLATE .................. 92 CHOCOLATE Is Big Business Worldwide .... 94 From Home Kitchen to More Than 300 Million CHOCOLATE Sales in 5 Years ......... 98 CHOCOLATE Health Drinks Beat Out Other Drinks in ORAC Value Greatly ......... 100 Guideline to Shopping For Highest Quality CHOCOLATE .................................. 104 Your Body Deserves the Best Quality CHOCOLATE ................................................ 106 Join Me In Spreading the GOOD WORD About Our So Lovable CHOCOLATE ........ 110

APPENDIX: Alarming Facts About the FDA ................. 113

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Tax Facts Taxing Facts Relative to Our Health and Personal Well Being .................. 113 Recommended High Vibration Books and Study Data .............................................................. 118 What People Are Saying ........................................ 122 More Offerings by Russ Michael ............................ 136 Final Note from the Author Scribe ........................ 143

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Preface by Author
Tell me now, who does not like chocolate? Since somewhere between six and seven billion people live on Earth today, it is probably no exaggeration to say that there are a billion of us lucky enough to live the good life and who really and passionately love chocolate. Note: To love chocolate is a quantum leap greater than to merely like chocolate. People who merely like chocolate perhaps account for yet another billion or more chocolate buyers, nibblers and munchers on our Earth. Let's face it, some chocolate buyers and eaters may have not yet reached the maturity, the more refined vibratory evolutionary stage, where they have learned to love chocolate. All in all, this still accounts for billions of chocolate nibblers, tasters, munchers or occasional imbibers who enjoy getting their taste buds high or who satisfy their craving for sweets with a daily dose or more of sweet-tasting, mouth-watering chocolate.

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Since you are reading a book titled CHOCOLATE for Health, it is a good guess that you may even BE the familyacclaimed chocolate Queen or a famed chocolate King or even, like me, a proud chocoholic. If so, I am sure you will enjoy learning why and how chocolate not only tastes good, but is also one of the most nutritious and healthiest foods. Chocolates many benefits revealed here were tested under laboratory and clinical conditions by reliable, concerned human health researchers and health specialists. Three cheers for chocolate! Bless us all. I am, Russ Michael

Chapter 1

Are You a CHOCOLATE Queen or CHOCOLATE King Like Me?

ome folks have gone past the stage of liking or loving chocolate. As noted, many have been funheartedly identified by family, friends, work associates and everyone else close enough to know them as genuine chocolate Queens or Kings, or even as chocoholics. Yes, I too confessI am one! Are you one? If sodon't be shy, confess it, admit it. Be proud to be what you are! It is no crime against yourself or humanity to be a chocolate lover or a reallife long-reigning chocolate Queen or King, or even a chocoholic! In fact, pull yourself and your spirits up to your full height. Here is why:

You personally have chosen what has been tested and found to be one of the top nutritional foods on Earth, the chocolate we love! So do not let anyone bully or badger you out of enjoying your occasional or daily treat of ultra-healthy, luscious highgrade chocolate bars or highly nutritious chocolate health drink. Stand your ground. Once you read this book, you will know far more factually than any chocolate critic! Let any uninformed chocolate detractors know the leading-edge nutritional facts about the extraordinary nutritional value of chocolate. Let them know the good news that you can now happily share as a well-informed chocolate lover. Chocolate has recently been widely tested at prestigious universities and by doctors and health specialists in reputable and reliable laboratories. Its official. Chocolate, especially raw dark chocolate, is a highly nutritious and top-rated health food.

The facts speak for themselves. You might want to study and memorize some of the results of recent studies about chocolate that are included in this book. Chocolate is more healthful than anyone could have imagined or dreamed. Give thanks! The facts are in. Search the Internetthe only remaining true worldwide source where truth about nutritional facts can be found, not just those bought, paid for and published by dark corporate profit interests. We chocoholics and chocolate lovers ought to be wearing a gold medal or a badge of honor instead of being accused of overdoing our daily natural taste for sweets and often gorging on chocolate treats. At some intuitive or inner physical gut level, we knewprobably at first taste that since chocolate tasted so incredibly good it had to be good for us. Yes, chocolate definitely is thatand much, much more! Chocolate is good for body, heart, mind and soul. Therefore, unenlightened chocolate detractors beware! When you open your

mouth to be critical, you are better off putting a sweet piece of dark raw chocolate into it instead of your own big foot. (Grin)

Chapter 2

The World is full of Chocolate Lovers

et's come back to my initial question. Who does not love chocolate?

Chocolate will soothe and tantalize our craving for something sweet like nothing else except, perhaps, honey another tasty and natural ultra-healthy food. Ed Robertson, of Virginia Beach, Virginiawhom I know for a fact is a longreigning, self-admitted chocolate Kingis quick to share his so very well stated, long-lived credo with us. Ed smilingly states the equation that he loves to share with his many friends: PIECE of chocolate = PEACE of mind! Over the years of a long friendship, be assured that Ed and I have enjoyed many wild, ravishing, adventurous chocolate party binges. Many included chocolate ice cream, chocolate cheesecake, chocolate mousse, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate

bars and other newly discovered chocolate treats. As you must know, it feels good to feast on chocolate treats with someone who shares your avid love of chocolate. Ed Robertson and I are fully matched chocoholics, so it really does not matter who takes the lead and who follows. When it comes to either one of us having a need for a chocolate fix, we both know we can count on the other faithful, timetested connoisseur of chocolate to join in any sudden new chocolate feast with equal passion and zest. Did you know that in the USA, each person eats and drinks an average of 12 pounds of chocolate per year? Imagine the total volume of chocolate consumed worldwide. Who could contest the fact that the world is full of chocolate lovers! Since you were drawn to read these pages, my guess would be that you are also one of the myriad of us who are out in the open, transparent, self-admitted chocoholics! Most of us are humbly proud to admit it.
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By the time you finish reading this book, you will know and appreciate even more deeply and fully why chocolate has been enjoyed and loved for thousands of years in almost every civilized place on Earth. Hats off to self-certified, self-chosen, self-confessed, genuine chocolate lovers.

Chapter 3

Who Can Resist Tasty, Sweet, Mouth-Watering Quality CHOCOLATE

erhaps, instead of asking who can resist the sweet mouth-watering taste of chocolate, I should rephrase the question: Who in their heart does not love chocolate? DECISIONSDECISIONSDECISIONS There are literally two parties involved in making our 3-D body, mind and soul, decisions; our mind and our heart. THE MIND The mind thinks it knows best, yet it never does. Your mind, in ignorance, may stubbornly try to talk you out of the sweet pleasure of enjoying a daily chocolate treat like a tasty chocolate bar, a steaming hot chocolate drink or a newly discovered chocolate dessert special. As you may have already observed and know, the mind listens to what others say
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or think. It really does not walk in the same shoes as your physical human body and heart does. My suggestion is to ignore it. Your mind, if not already well disciplined, will argue that everyone around you is in full-step agreement with it. Your mind simply does not know the truth. Your mind is often managed by a ruthless, self-serving ego that cares nothing about the truth, and without conscience, will consciously lie in order to have its own determined way. Remember, you are NOT your mind. It was gifted to you as a tool, not to be your master. A mind is a wonderful, powerful and faithful personal servant when well trained. Without factual evidence to prove it, your ego-backed mind will rain on your parade. Your mind will declare with a self-satisfied smirk that chocolate is fattening. If you are not listening, or choosing to ignore it, your mind will kick and scream that your pure natural craving for a delectable piece of chocolate is an absolute no-no!

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Let's face it. Unless well trained and highly disciplined, our minds want to be our bosses. Even when we staunchly ignore our minds and shamelessly indulge in our daily chocolate cravings, our disgruntled minds leap up and try to talk each and all of us out of the sweet, sentient joy that we feel with every sip or bite of heart-warming chocolate THE HEART Your heart knows better. The mind thinks but the heart knows. A whole dimension or an entire world of difference is involved in the outcome for you. Your knowing, loving heart knows and follows that innermost divine cardinal rule of life that is ingrained in your DNA or cellular geneticswhat feels good is good. This rule, imprinted in our genes and our DNA, was already known by all of us before our bodily birth. This rule is worth repeating and holding before us at all times: What feels good is good. Your heart knows that your body, my body, and the body, mind and soul of any chocolate lover lives and grows naturally,
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by following or acting upon what triggers it into feeling good. Let's face the truth. Feeling bad is a real downer while feeling good naturally uplifts our body, mind and soul. I can hear my quickwitted chocolate buddy Ed Robertson spring up to say, Chocolate is good for the spirits. The heart is no fool like the ego mind. The spark of your I Am life within your heart knows what it knew before it was birthed in a human body. It knows that if chocolate makes your body feel goodif it uplifts your body, mind and spirit chocolate is good. Most of my book readers know already that most new words are sourced or derived from other known and used words, and a specific word can be a simple or clearly obvious corruption of another word. In light of this, it's obvious that the word GOOD is a corruption of the word GOD. It is why the phrase God is good and good is GOD is an absolute truth that holds throughout all Creation.
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God is not bad. God is good! What feels good and tastes good is good. What feels goodunder any and all occasionstranslates to a personal feeling of more of GOD Source being merged or embodied in our I Am self identity at a sentient or sensual human, animal or even plant level. You know how good dogs or cats feel when you pet them. You transmit your love to them through your hands and through the caring, loving tone of your voice. Even live plants tested in laboratories, wired with sensors by scientists, show that plants, like all other life forms, can and do feel bad or good. A plant measurably expands with vitality. It grows and flourishes when a lab technician or scientist sends a loving, caring stream of thought or genuinely felt appreciation toward it. However, that same happy, healthful plant will cringe, contract and grow sickly, when exposed to thoughts of hate or simply exposed to harsh music such as hard rock or heavy metal. In addition,
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that distressed plant will wither and die if exposed too long to continual bursts or steady streams of any kind of negative vibrations. Now then, back to our grand angelic humanly embodied kingdom on Earth. The heart within all chocolate lovers worldwide knows that chocolate is good. Why? Simply because every taste of chocolate brings such an irresistible, ultra-high vibratory and pleasing taste sensation that instantly communicates a wave of good feeling to all of our body cells and senses. So rise up! Take charge of your body and your humanly embodied life-stream. Be kind always, but be firm and tell your mind to take a flying leap. With conscious effort and in due time, your mind can be trained to be an instant, powerful and faithful servant of your body for Well Being on all human and divine fronts. Meanwhile, until your mind is mature and responsible, trust your heart. Your heart knows what is good for you. By nature, your heart knows that
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eating chocolate is good for your body, mind and soul.

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Chapter 4

Look Out! Heating Foods Is Known To Destroy Nutrient Value

ealth research tests have shown raw cacao powder delivers around seven times the amount of healthful antioxidants to your body than cooked cacao powder. This amounts to approximately a 723 percent increase in nutritional benefit. If you are not familiar with the fact that heat-processed foods rob your body of most of the essential vitamins and minerals it needs, take or make the time to search the internet for information about it. I especially recommend the book Raw Food Family, a delightful true story of how the Boutenko family of four lost a great amount of excessive weight and recovered from all of their ills. They were all restored to a natural extraordinary health of body, mind and soul by staying on a

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daily regime of raw foods only. Contact Victoria, the dear mother of the superhealthful Boutenko raw food family at www.Victoria@rawfamily.com Now that you are equipped with this knowledge, you are fully prepared to understand why and how cold-processed chocolate lives up to the claims of being the highest rated ORAC tested foods known on Earth today.

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Chapter 5

The Soothing Sedative and Calming Value of CHOCOLATE

he praises and now well-known, well-proven, time-tested health values of chocolate are surfacing in health research circles more and more each day. Among all these heartwarming revelations is the now emerging wonderful good news that chocolate has a known sedative effect that soothes and calms our body and mind. Professor Gordon Parker, a psychiatrist and the director of the Black Dog Institute in Sydney, states that chocolate can activate the same chemical reactions as various anti-depressant drugs. He compares snacking on a bit of chocolate, which aids his patients to calm their stress or anxiety, to moving themselves voluntarily into the category of treating themselves with a natural form of self-medication.

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Biologists have noted that when you eat chocolate there are two easily seen body chemistry or chemical related effects. Chocolate triggers the body to release the mentally and emotionally uplifting hormones known as endorphins. These endorphins provide us all with a comforting, good feeling sensation, says Doctor Parker. Chocolate falls in the category or list of foods that the body naturally and wisely craves because it is a food rich in a substance called L-tryptophan. L-tryptophan helps increase higher levels of the calming agent serotonin in the brain. Nature knows how to do it best! Eating and basking one's whole being in the delectable lingering taste of chocolate is nature's own self-therapy for our sacred, priceless sentient human bodies. Dr. Parker says he has learned from studying his patients that many of them crave chocolate when feeling stressed or jittery. Thus by giving in and satisfying
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that craving, they naturally fulfill their hearts inner desire for a more relaxed and stress-free state through the almost instant natural calming effect of a chocolate fix. So be it.

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Chapter 6

Beware of Inferior Chocolate Bars or Drink Products

hat exactly is an inferior chocolate bar or an inferior chocolate drink?

Indeed our own being can and does tell us on the spot whether something tastes good or not to our own sense of taste. An inferior tasting chocolate bar or drink sends its own specific message to our body and brain. We do not need to be rocket scientists to figure out which brands of chocolate tastes superior.

However, I am directing your attention specifically to other more vital telltale factors that chocolate lovers ought to know. In terms of health and nutritional value factors, a chocolate bar or drink can be measured from three major perspectives. FIRST: What percentage of high quality chocolate is in each serving?
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SECOND: Was the chocolate coldpressed or heated when processed by the manufacturer? THIRD: What kind of naturalor unnaturaladditives (if any) are in it? We will probe into these factors, and their importance to the health of consumers and lovers of chocolate in the following chapters. Bless us all.

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Chapter 7

CHOCOLATE Lovers UNITE

lease, if you are a chocolate lover and you value high standard chocolate, read and evaluate every statement and word published in this book. When standards are lowered, the manufacturers and sales distributors automatically gain a much higher income at your and my personal expense. The warning flag is up! When enough of us learn about any conspiracy to lower the standards of chocolate or any health product or environmental standard, we must unite as one powerful body standing together for truth. By doing so, we become an unstoppable, invincible force that can and will maintain our rights to make our own well-informed sovereign choices about any natural food of our choice on Earth. The following article was published in the The Virginian-Pilot on August 12, 2007:

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Would You Eat Chocolate Made with Vegetable Oil? By Andrew Bridges, The Associated Press LIKE MANY BATTLES, this one is being fought block by block. Victory, for whomever prevails, will be sweet or bitteror even bittersweet. It all depends on how you like your chocolate. At stake is the very definition of chocolate, and whether cheaper vegetable oils can be substituted for what many consider the very quintessence of every block, bar and square of chocolate: cocoa butter. In Europe, the cocoa butter vs. vegetable oil fight took 30 years to resolve. In the United States, its been less than a year since the first volley. Hundreds of chocoholics have joined the fray, the outcome of which could in turn affect the livelihoods of millions of cocoa farmers in Africa and South America. It all began in October, when a dozen industry groups filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration seeking to amend the

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standards that guide how nearly 300 foods can be produced, from canned cherries to evaporated milk. Broadly speaking, the so-called standards of identity are intended to ensure listed products contain the right amount of key ingredients and are both properly made and not deceptively packaged. For example, chocolate in its purest statethe liquor made from ground, processed cacao beans must contain between 50 percent and 60 percent cocoa butter, also known as cocoa fat. The Grocery Manufacturers Association, Chocolate Manufacturers Association and 10 other food industry groups want more flexibility in those rigid standards. They seek broad permission to add ingredients, use different techniques, employ new shapes and substitute ingredientssomething the standards currently dont allow. The petitioners say its all about modernizing antiquated standards that now can take years to change. If youre trying to innovate, the process is not amenable to introducing change in a rea28

sonable amount of time. Its not efficient, said Regina Hildwine, the Grocery Manufacturers Associations senior director of food labeling and standards. Opponents of the change say its out of step with the times. Its a real philosophical thing, just about the foods we eat. There is such a focus on peoples wanting to know whats in the foods they eat, how theyre grown, where they come fromthis seems to fly against the direction of the way things are moving, said Gary Guittard, the president of Californias Guittard Chocolate Co. and a leader of the opposition. The broadly written petition skimps on the details but includes an appendix that lists examples of proposed changes. Tucked between requests to allow antifungals on bulk cheese and powdered milk in yogurt is what has people riled up the most: a proposal that would let manufacturers use a vegetable fat in place of another vegetable fat named in the standard (e.g. cacao fat). Manufacturers already can use vegetable fats instead of cocoa butterthey just cant call
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it chocolate. Hundreds of people have filed comments with the FDA, with the overwhelming majority seeking to keep it that way, according to an Associated Press review of the file. It is a passionate debate. You dont get that about yogurt. People feel very protective about their chocolate, said Beth Kimmerle, author of Chocolate: The Sweet History. The FDA has yet to completely analyze the petition. Greater flexibility is one of the goals of our modernization. However, we always have to look at whether it results in a food that retains the basic nature of the food, retain the essential character of the food and is something that consumers expect. So that would be very difficult to do in a very short time, said Geraldine June, a supervisor in the regulations and review team of the agencys food labeling and standards staff. For centuries, if not millennia, chocolate has been made from the cacao bean, with cocoa butter as an essential ingredient. That ingredient is the essence of the taste, texture
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and mouth feel of chocolate, according to Jay King, president of the Retail Confectioners International, an industry group. Allowing chocolate in the United States to be made with vegetable oils could have an extraordinary and unfortunate impact on those millions, Steven J. Laning, an executive with Archer Daniels Midland Co.s cocoa division, wrote to the FDA. But the shift would make chocolate cheaper to produce, since cocoa butter can be at least four times the cost of shea, palm oil and other vegetable fats. The petition comes as scientists find evidence that suggests chocolatewhen eaten in moderationcan lower blood pressure, among its other health benefits. Chocolate makers have capitalized on those findings and trotted out products they tout as healthful, especially dark chocolates high in flavanols, antioxidants found in cacao beans. It just seems to position chocolate in a murky field, especially now with all this great

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news about its health benefits coming into the light, Kimmerle said. It feels like a better time to get clearer about standards.

Jeff Chiu of The Associated Press writes: Industry groups filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration seeking to amend the standards that guide the production of chocolate. The proposal would let manufacturers use a vegetable fat in place of another vegetable fat named in the standard (e.g. cacao fat). Manufacturers already can use vegetable fats instead of cocoa butter they just cant call it chocolate.

Ed Robertsona life-long trusted, highly regarded, greatly respected friend of this author writes: Yes! I AM fully supportive of Saving Chocolate!! Save the Whales, Save the Environment, Save Health Care, save fill in the blank, all worthy goals, but SAVE CHOCOLATE!! Tops the lists of priorities!!!
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CHOCOLATE LOVERS UNITE!!! Eat more chocolate now!! Tell chocolate makers that we will continue to eat chocolate as long as they use cocoa butter and their coffers will overflow!! Then they will know how much money they will lose when we stop eating chocolate if they put in any other type oil (rapeseed being the most unforgivable)! This will be a strong voice to the makers! I am doing my part now by upping my chocolate intake by going to the Heritage Store and buying a box full of Fair Trade chocolate and eating it as my way of lending my voice to this issue!! If you agree with the goal, but do not want to eat the extra volume of chocolate, please purchase a large supply and send it TO ME!! I will see that it is properly used! (Address available on request from publisher or author.) Don't worry about any extra pounds I may put on because if the chocolate makers get foolish and change the oil, I will be going on a Hunger Strike and will need the extra pounds at that point.

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Cocoa butter reigns supreme!! Bless chocolate and bless us all! Brother Ed

Hopefully like me, you will stand alongside other Ed Robertson, and other chocolate and freedom lovers worldwide to let our positions be known to the FDA or any dark-hearted and usually unconstitutional government agency that would willfully seek to lower our life standards. We will let them know we are a force to be reckoned with because we stand for Creator God Source's light of knowledge and truth on Earth and the freewill of 'we the people' will be done. So be it.

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Chapter 8

ORACNORAC or HORAC Scientific Nutrient Value Gauge

ere is the meaning of the following acronyms:

ORAC: Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity HORAC: Hydroxyl Radical Absorbance Capacity NORAC: Nitric Oxide Radical Absorbance Capacity The ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) measures the antioxidant level of protection any product has via the latest scientific testing method developed by Tufts University, located in Boston. Oxidative stress has been shown to accelerate the aging process in our cells

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and blood vessels. Scientists report that this oxidative stress also increases the risk of falling prey to coronary heart disease, certain forms of cancers and many other health ills. ORAC antioxidant laboratory analysis confirms that there are over 25,200 antioxidants in a single spoonful of raw chocolate powder! If a food has a high ORAC score, then it means the food is high in antioxidants. These published tests show the health benefits of dark chocolate and cocoa. An average serving of fruits and vegetables measured about 500 ORAC units. Compare that to one brand of chocolate mix drink that measured a whopping 21,000+ ORAC units per one daily serving. The USDA and Harvard School of Public Health claim we need to consume at least five servings of vegetables and fruits to be healthy enough to ward off diseases, especially those related to aging.Isn't it

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obviously really good news to know you can obtain up to eight times as many healthful ORAC units from one serving of a chocolate drink? Certainly, if you or your children are not eating the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, then treating yourself and your children to healthy chocolate drinks or other healthful chocolate desserts makes good sense to me.

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Chapter 9

Common Foods With a High ORAC Value

ere is a recently compiled sliding scale list of common fruits, legumes or vegetables and the ORAC value per gram measured in each of them.
Cucumber Tomato Cashew nuts White potato Apple Peanut Milk chocolate Medjool dates Prune Cranberry Wild blueberry Watermelon Small red kidney bean Pecan nuts Acai berry Cocoa baking chocolate 1.15 4.00 7.19 11.00 22.10 to 42.75 31.66 71.30 85.78 85.78 92.60 92.60 95.00 49.00 179.40 1027.00 1032.00

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Obviously then, chocolate, according to these scientific measurements, is now rated as our most nutritious known food. Do I hear an avalanche of cheers sounding out all over the world? Isn't this priceless information to know and pass along to your friends and to any critics of your wonderful and endearing love of chocolate?

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Chapter 10

CHOCOLATE Has the Highest ORAC Value

ikipedia, a free on-line free encyclopedia, again chocolate is listed as having the highest Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC). To quote, Cocoa has a high ORAC value, giving baking chocolate a value of 1032 and milk chocolate an average of 71.30. In his book ORAC Value of Herbs, Ray Sahelian, M.D., reveals that the ORAC value of a serving of 100 grams of dark chocolate is 9000 ORAC units. Researchers also report, and it is worth emphasizing, that dark chocolate has twice as much ORAC value as milk chocolate. So if you are really, really health-minded, reach for the dark chocolate bars or dark chocolate drink mixes that are at least 53 percent cacao.

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Chapter 11

What Doctors Say About CHOCOLATE

GOOGLED headlines and quotes! www.Google.com Instead of: An apple a day make it A chocolate a day. Chocolate every day will keep the doctor away. Chocolate is good for you, doctors say. A small bar of dark chocolate is about equivalent to an apple or a few glasses of red wine. Milk chocolate has a lower amount of flavenoids, and white chocolate has none. Cocoa acts like low-dose aspirin, U.S. researchers report. Eating Chocolate Is Healthy, Doctors Say, By Patricia Reaney.

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CHOCOLATE CANCER CURE An ingredient found in chocolate seems to exert its anti-cancer properties, findings that might be used one day to design novel cancer treatments.

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Chapter 12

Known Historical Medical Uses of CHOCOLATE

ocoa residues were recently identified in a 2600-year-old Mayan pot found in Belize. This was a find that pushed back humankind's known love affair with chocolate by at least 1000 years. Throughout its long history, chocolate has been consumed not just for its taste, but as a medicine to treat a range of conditions from anemia to tuberculosis. Wouldn't you know it! Culturing and eating of cocoa beans was restricted to the elite of Mayan society and normally served as an unsweetened cocoa drink. The Aztecs and Mayans used cacao bean powder in a royalty chocolate drink known as Xocolati.

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(The following information and quotes were all found on the internet using Google.) QUOTE from the Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, CA USA: The word cacao is derived from Olmec and the subsequent Mayan language (kakaw); the chocolate-related term cacahuatl is Nahuatl (Aztec language), derived from Olmec/Mayan etymology. Historical researchers state the culture and medical use of cacao or chocolate, either as a primary vehicle or a secondary vehicle to deliver other medical formulations started in the New World and wound up in Europe in the middle 1500s. Tracking of this data indicates the use of chocolate with the Olmec, followed by the Maya and Aztec civilizations. QUOTE: The Badianus Codex (1552) noted the use of cacao flowers to treat fatigue, whereas the
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Florentine Codex (1590) offered a prescription of cacao beans, maize and the herb tlacoxochitl (Calliandra anomala) to alleviate fever and panting of breath and to treat the faint of heart. Subsequent 16th to early 20th century manuscripts produced in Europe and New Spain revealed more than 100 medicinal uses for cacao/chocolate. Three consistent roles can be identified: 1) to treat emaciated patients to gain weight; 2) to stimulate nervous systems of apathetic, exhausted or feeble patients; and 3) to improve digestion and elimination where cacao/chocolate countered the effects of stagnant or weak stomachs, stimulated kidneys and improved bowel function. Additional medical complaints treated with chocolate/cacao have included anemia, poor appetite, mental fatigue, poor breast milk production, consumption/tuberculosis, fever, gout, kidney stones, reduced longevity and poor sexual appetite/ low virility. Chocolate paste was a medium used to administer drugs and to counter the taste of bitter pharmacological additives. In addition to cacao beans, preparations of cacao bark, oil (cacao butter), leaves and flowers have been used to treat

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burns, bowel dysfunction, cuts and skin irritations. QUOTE: Currently, 54 percent of young people in a US survey designated chocolate as being unhealthy, although they also described it as awesome, calming, dangerous, delectable, erotic, heavenly, intoxicating, irresistible, mysterious, satiating, sexy, sinful, sticky and tranquilizing. One Californian Chocolate Research team argues: Chocolate is more than the sum of its interesting phytochemicals. It is more than a beverage or a confection. To taste chocolate is to share in a common connection through history, from antiquity to the present, from the frothy cacao beverages prepared at the court of King Montezuma, to the era of the modern chocolate bar.

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Are Deadly Cancer Cells Fearful of CHOCOLATE?

fast answer is to ask another pertinent question: is chocolate acid or alkaline?

All cancer cells know that an alkaline environment is deadly to them. Yes indeed! You can bet your bottom dollar that chocolate is alkalineso any enlightened well-informed cancer cell would be deadly fearful of being anywhere near a good mouthful or even a tiny taste of delicious chocolate Many decades ago, Dr. Otto Warburg proved beyond a doubt that cancer cells exposed to high states of oxygen could not live in such a highly alkaline environment. When cancer tumors were injected with pure oxygen all the cancer cells died off and were quickly replaced

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The Many Health Benefits of CHOCOLATE

ew research from Germany adds to mounting evidence linking dark chocolate with health benefits, but it's the first to suggest that just a tiny amount may suffice. The facts are in. All the new alternative medical health research has proven chocolate is a decisive top quality health food. Very recent studies reported in prestigious medical journals acclaim what many uphold and believe to be the best medical news in agesdark chocolate is healthy. The facts are found with very little research. Search engines (I prefer Google) are a fast track to documented facts about almost anything today. Yes, of course, there are many paid misinformation postings, but all in all far more truth can be found on the internet than

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through the CORPORATE PHARM and ONE WORLD CORPORATION that has a death-grip control over major mass media outlets today where outright lies, disinformation, misinformation, noninformation, terror and violence is the main-meal coursewith trimmingseach day! Dark, unprocessed, very alkaline chocolate is reported to be loaded with a host of beneficial health values. One publicly posted report states: Eating 2 ounces (50 grams) a day of plain chocolate with a minimum content of 70% chocolate solids can be beneficial to health, providing protection against heart disease, high blood pressure, and many other health hazards as well as essential trace elements and nutrients such as iron, calcium and potassium, and vitamins A. B, C, D and E, and it's a lot tastier than boring old vitamin pills, too. In fact, A 1-1/2-ounce square of chocolate may have as many cancerfighting antioxidants as a five-ounce glass of red wine.

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CHOCOLATE and a Happy, Healthy Heart

QUOTE: On the heart front, chocolate, a plantbased food, is rich in substances called flavonoids, which can act as anti-oxidants, helping the body's cells resist damage from free radicals. University of Cologne researcher Dr. Dirk Taubert, the study's lead author, said the blood pressure reductions with dark chocolate were small but still substantial enough to potentially reduce cardiovascular disease risks, Chocolate also contains cocoa butter, which has fatty acids that, like those in olive oil, may protect the heart. Although studies have not yet confirmed that chocolate is as effective as red wine in reducing risk of cardiovascular disease, it is clear that a 40-gram serving of dark chocolate has the same polyphenol content as a 5-ounce glass of red wine. A 40-gram milk chocolate candy bar
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CHOCOLATE Discovered To Lower Blood Pressure

ests suggested that steady exposure to dark chocolate prompted chemical changes that helped dilate blood vessels and regulate blood pressure, the researchers said. Here are some of the captions a Google search brought up: CHOCOLATE LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE Dark Chocolate is Healthy Chocolate SMALL AMOUNT OF DARK CHOCOLATE MAY LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE Dark chocolate seems to lower blood pressure, but it requires an amount less than two Hersheys Kisses to do it, about 30 calories worth, a small study suggests. The re-

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Reporting on a test conducted in Germany, Lindsey Tanner of The Associated Press states: Volunteers for the German study ate just more than 6 grams of dark chocolate or white chocolate daily for almost five months. Average blood pressure at the start was about 147 over 86. Systolic blood pressure, the top number, fell an average of nearly 3 points, and diastolic dropped almost 2 points in the dark chocolate group, compared with no change in the white chocolate group. University of Cologne researcher Dr. Dirk Taubert, the studys lead author, said the blood pressure reductions were small but still substantial enough to potentially reduce cardiovascular disease risks, although study volunteers werent followed long enough to measure that effect.

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Cocoa contains flavanols, plant based compounds that also are credited with giving red wine its heart-healthy benefits. Dark chocolate has ingredients that lower blood pressure and fight disease. Eating more dark chocolate can help lower blood pressure.

Chocolate Lowers Blood Pressure, Dark Chocolate, Other Cocoa-Rich Foods May Lower Blood Pressure Better Than Tea, by Jennifer Warner, Web MD Medical News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD April 9, 2007. A chocolate treat may be better than green or black tea at keeping high blood pressure in check. A new study suggests that dark chocolate and other cocoa-rich products may be better at lowering blood pressure than tea. Researchers compared the blood pressure-lowering effects of cocoa and tea in previously published studies and found eating cocoa-rich foods was associated with an average 4.7-point lower systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading)
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chocolate or specially formulated polyphenolrich milk chocolate, and blood pressure in five studies, which totaled 173 participants and lasted on average two weeks. They also reviewed black and green tea and blood pressure in five different studies that totaled 343 participants and lasted on average four weeks. All studies were published between 1966 and 2006. The results showed four of the five cocoa studies reported a reduction in both systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure. The reduction was an average of 4.7 points systolic and 2.8 points diastolic. Researchers say those effects are similar to those found using one-drug therapy with common blood pressure-lowering medications such as beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors. None of the five studies on green or black tea were associated with any significant reduction in blood pressure. COCOA TO THE RESCUE Applied to the population as a whole, researchers estimate that the blood pressure64

lowering effect associated with cocoa would be expected to reduce the risk of stroke by about 20 percent, coronary heart disease by 10 percent, and death from all other causes by 8 percent. However, they say their findings should not be interpreted as a widespread recommendation to raid the candy counter. But they say it appears reasonable to substitute polyphenol-rich cocoa products like dark chocolate for other high-calorie or highfat desserts, such as having a piece of dark chocolate rather than a slice of cheesecake. We believe that any dietary advice must account for the high sugar, fat, and calorie intake with most cocoa products, writes researcher Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, of the University Hospital of Cologne in Germany. Rationally applied, cocoa products might be considered part of dietary approaches to lower hypertension risk. SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine, April 9, 2007; vol. 167: 626634. News release, Archives of Internal Medicine.

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Hot Chocolate Reduces Blood Pressure Research published in the American Medical Associations Archives of Internal Medicine reports cocoa appears to have some benefit for those with high blood pressure. The source of that article was a review of 10 other studies that, in addition to cocoa, examined five different kinds of tea, including black tea and green tea. In total, the results showed that while tea did not seem to offer any benefit for blood pressure, cocoa led to blood pressure reductionsabout a 5mmHg reduction in systolic blood pressure and a 3mmHg reduction in diastolic blood pressure. Cocoa is a recent substance of interest in heart and high blood pressure research because it is a rich source of chemicals called polyphenols, also known as flavonoids, which are known to have protective effects on the heart and circulatory system. While this study focused on cocoa as a beverage (hot choco-

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Can CHOCOLATE Help Diabetics Feel Better?

n 1900, diabetes had a low incidence of 0.0028 percent per capita. This skyrocketed 1,000 percent in the United States by 1933. In time, diabetes grew to destroy the health of over 50 percent of the American population. By 1990, diabetes would incapacitate nearly 20 percent of us living in the USA. Now more than half of the people who live in the USA suffer from at least one or several symptoms of diabetes. A third of the USA population is morbidly obese and half of our population is greatly overweight. Doctors report that Type 2 diabetes is appearing routinely in children six years old or younger. We obviously need to offset the terrible suffering of those with diabetes in every natural healthful way possible.

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Chocolate may help diabetes patients feel better. Since chocolate is loaded with hundreds of known and many as yet unknown beneficial health nutrients, it stands to reason it would help our immune system bring about a more balanced body state, which most likely would control the correct release of insulin in our blood stream and help lower cholesterol in hypersensitive patients. If you will search the internet for information, you will find many reports that indicate eating dark chocolate can be beneficial in helping to terminate diabetes symptoms. A recent Italian study confirmed that eating 100 grams of dark chocolate daily can decrease blood pressure and also revealed that dark chocolate may help prevent Type 2 diabetes.

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Does Eating CHOCOLATE Daily Help You LOSE WEIGHT?

at Candy & Lose Weight! What a title for a BLOCKBUSTER bestseller that would be. Maybe in due time I will take or make the time to write that book (grin). Naturally, we are not talking about any old kind of fattening candy. We are talking about tasty, healthful, sweet natural chocolate bars and, more specifically, cold-processed dark chocolate bars and raw dark chocolate drinks. Did Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, know intuitively exactly what he was talking about so many centuries ago when he urged, Let food be thy medicine? In that vein, what better medicine for whatever ails us than chocolate for health?
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How does eating chocolate related to losing excessive weight? Diabetes Care, a health journal published by the American Diabetes Association, reported people in a test who cut out all meat and dairy products and ate a low-fat vegan diet lost more weight than did those who followed a standard American Diabetes Association diet. It was also reported by the participants that the vegan diet was far easier to follow because they did not bother to measure portions or to count their calories. The president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Dr. Neal Barnard, who helped conduct the test, candidly stated, I hope this study will rekindle interest in using diet changes first, rather than prescription drugs. The test was conducted for 22 straight weeks and the results showed 43 percent on the vegan diet and 26 percent on the standard diet were able to stop using insulin or glucose-control prescription medications, while some were able to

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lower their doseswhich proved what Hippocrates said so long ago, food really can be your medicine. Vegan dieters had shed an average of 14 pounds compared to the diabetes association dieters loss of only 6.8 pounds. In addition, the glucose controlcalled A1c dropped by 1.23 points for the vegans but only was lowered 0.38 points by the standard association dieters. This A1c gave the measure of how wellcontrolled the blood sugar in both groups had been during the test period. Obviously, there is a need to repeat similar tests and add healthful dark chocolate to any tests aimed at showing weight gains or weight loss as healthfully needed by each individual.

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CHOCOLATE & Age Reversal

esearch suggests that eating plenty of high-ORAC foods may help slow the process of aging in both body and brain.

Recent studies have shown that the antioxidants found in colorful foods such as blueberries, red wine and chocolate may offer a wide variety of health benefits. They may help reduce some of the stress associated with oxidation reactions. Oxidation can be dangerous because it produces free radicals substances that have lost an electron, leaving them incomplete and looking for a way to become whole again. If they snatch an electron from another molecule to balance their electrical charges, that will leave the other molecule unbalanced. That can set off an uncontrolled chain reaction that may disrupt normal biochemical reactions.
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Polyphenols: Powerful Antioxidants Scientists are currently focusing a great deal of attention on polyphenols, a large group of antioxidants composed of several subgroups, including flavonoids. The chemical structures of polyphenols make them natural deterrents to uncontrolled chain reactions; they are termed antioxidants because they are able to absorb the free radicals that oxidation produces. Common in the plant world, polyphenols are found in the bark of various trees; their presence may account in part for the durability of wood. In chocolate, their presence may explain why this food, despite its high-fat content, does not spoil easily. In addition, chocolate, like tea and other flavonoid-rich foods, appears to offer antimicrobial action that can help prevent cavities and oral disease, despite its high sugar content. Scientists classify the power of antioxidantstheir ability to subdue free radicalsaccording to their oxygen absorbent capacity (ORAC). Colorful flavonoid-rich
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Where and What Does CHOCOLATE Come From?

orty percent of chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast of Africa and Brazil.

Illegal child labor is a major problem on the West African cocoa farms. Let's hope that any forced child labor crime is eliminated soonwherever it thrives anywhere worldwide. Cacao is grown around the globe within a narrow band that straddles the equator. As many as 50 million people depend upon cacoa for their livelihood, according to the World Cocoa Foundation.

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The Divine CHOCOLATE Bean

Chocolate is made from cacao, a natural product containing more than 600 different compounds. Cacao contains a variety of polyphenols, including tannins, which give chocolate, tea and wine a slightly astringent taste and feel. Chocolate also contains cocoa butter, which has fatty acids that, like those in olive oil, may protect the heart. Although studies have not yet confirmed that chocolate is as effective as red wine in reducing risk of cardiovascular disease, it is clear that a 40-gram serving of dark chocolate has the same polyphenol content as a 5 ounce glass of red wine. And a 40-gram milk chocolate candy bar contains more than 300 milligrams of polyphenolsabout the same amount as five servings of fruits and vegetables. However, you should not substitute a chocolate candy bar for your daily fruits and vegetables, as they

ccording to an article in the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia:

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Medical Values of Pure High-Grade CHOCOLATE

edicinal uses for cacao/chocolate.

Three consistent roles can be identified: 1) to treat emaciated patients to gain weight; 2) to stimulate nervous systems of apathetic, exhausted or feeble patients; and 3) to improve digestion and elimination where cacao/chocolate countered the effects of stagnant or weak stomachs, stimulated kidneys and improved bowel function. Additional medical complaints treated with chocolate/cacao have included: Anemia Poor appetite Mental fatigue Poor breast milk production Consumption/tuberculosis

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Fever Gout Kidney stones Reduced longevity Poor sexual appetite/low virility.

Chocolate paste was a medium used to administer drugs and to counter the taste of bitter pharmacological additives. In addition to cacao beans, preparations of cacao bark, oil (cacao butter), leaves and flowers have been used to treat burns, bowel dysfunction, cuts and skin irritations.

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The Ultra Value of Cold-Pressed CHOCOLATE

ome folks simply are not aware that heating, baking, frying and cooking vegetables, grains, cereals, fruits, etc., destroys most of the nutritional value. WORTH REPEATING: Health research tests have shown raw cacao powder delivers around seven times the amount of healthful antioxidants to your body than cooked cacao powderwhich amounts to approximately a 723% increase in nutritional benefit. Cacao beans are cold-pressed into cakes, which separate the oil from the fiber and protein. Temperature is held around 104F and never exceeding 120F. Compare that to the fact that all other batches of cocoa powders are heated to 300F or more.

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In the cold-press process, highly accurate thermometers are used to measure the temperature, always trying to maintain an ideal 104F reading. Then in due time the pure, liquid cocoa butter starts to separate into a stainless steel container. This leaves a dry and very cakelike cocoa residue that is cold-ground, then fine-milled and carefully sifted so that the raw, now bio-available cocoa particles comprise a finely finished chocolate product. This cold-process enhances maximum antioxidant and absorptive digestion value, imparting an ultra-rich chocolate flavor when consumed. The big difference is none of the other food processing chemicals, like hexane and other solvents, are utilized in the cold-processing of the natural cacao bean into a highly nutritional chocolate bar or chocolate powder drink mix. Please remember to store natural, cold-processed chocolate in a cool, dry area. It's not wise to store most natural foods, even if they are free of microbes or highly stable, in direct sunlight. That of

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The Fun of Eating CHOCOLATE

he secret is out. In fact, the whole world is beginning to know, the secret is no secret anymore!

Most of the readers of my books know we are not our body. We are not our feelings. We are not even the 50,000+ daily thoughts we generate (about 20 per second as measured by scientists researching the astounding and powerful field of divine or human thought). You and I give rise to new thoughts or process existing ones passing into our minds through the Law of Attraction. We each and all are free at any moment to accept and hold, or to dismiss and release, any and every thought entering our individual I Am identity mind space. We are truly not our minds or even our feelings. We are divinely much, much more than our thoughts, feelings, or soon
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discarded bodily cloak of flesh, blood and skin. The I Am that I individually am, or the I Am that you individually are in our innate God Oneness is divinely, eternally and immensely more. This God-loved, sacred, genuinely godly human being that you are and that I am is far more than that brief center stage humanly embodied star role we play in this magnificent theater-in-theround called our planet Earth. As the genuine, eternal, non-physical spirit beings that we are, we each and all came into these highly mobile human embodiments on Earth to have a good measure of joy, of daily fun and of high adventure. We also came here to this particular planet at this specific end times not only to further our own spiritual growth, but to help aid and uplift this planet and our One Human Familythe billions of loving brothers and sisters who share our Earthly existence and our natural overflowing abundance on this so greatly blessed Garden of Eden planet.
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Though our minds may be ignorant and in denial of this truth, our hearts know we are one collective huge human family and each and all of us within it needs to feel supported and to be lovingly uplifted. That includes having unending day-in and day-out, night-in and nightout, deeply embraced, human experienced, fun and joy! How then does delicious, healthful CHOCOLATE enter this genuinely accurate and delightfully true Earth picture? Here is how: Most of us discovered even before we could crawl or walk the wonderful sweet and subtly lingering taste of our first piece or drink of chocolate. We would never forget it. Chocolate had such a delightful lingering aftertaste. So now let's explore and wisely treat ourselves to the fun of knowing and resonating to what leading edge health researchers have discovered.

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CHOCOLATE Is Big Business Worldwide

hirty-six million boxes of chocolate are sold annually for Valentine's Day alone.

The biggest vendor of chocolate sold to shoppers is M&M MARS, as reported by industry spokesperson (an industry with over $14 billion in sales annually in the USA alone). There are over 3 million tons of chocolate harvested annually worldwide.

Forty percent of chocolate consumed worldwide comes from Western Europe. The EU imports 90 percent of the cocoa from West Africa, mainly from Cote. It is no secret that Swiss-based Barry Callebaut is the giant in the chocolate world, selling one out of every four chocolate bars, pralines and chocolates sold worldwide.

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A spokesperson reports, Our chocolate sales in Asia have been growing. It has an annual rate worldwide of chocolate and confectionery sales of 8.65 billion Swiss, while the USA chocolate sales are forecast to reach 18 billion by 2011.

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From Home Kitchen to More Than $300 Million in CHOCOLATE Sales in Five Years
ost people have never heard of multi-millionaire housewife, Jeanette Brooks, but this lady is very well known in the world of chocolate. I love success stories! If you have not yet read my book, The Secret SUCCESS FORMULA to Health, Wealth and True Love (available in eBook form at my BLOCKBUSTER general website: www.RussMichaeleBooks.com), you are in for a treat! My book is loaded with success stories that will inspire and uplift you, including a few of my very own. Jeanette Brooks is in a high-level success story category of her own making. Janette began her worldwide Pure Delight chocolate business at home in her
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kitchen. She formulated a tasty dark chocolate bar named Pure Delight that was loaded with extra high quality cocoa. Selling for about $2 per bar, these became an instant success in most of her neighborhood stores. Customers were soon buying her Pure Delight brand of chocolate bars almost faster than she could make them. Her business expanded rapidly into chain stores like Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreen, Safeway and a host of others. In less than five years, Jeanette's Pure Delight chocolate bar sales soared to more than 300 million dollars worth of chocolate worldwide, requiring a 65,000 square foot refrigerated warehouse, as her famous chocolate bars are manufactured using a cold-press process. What was so amazing was that doctors and cardiologists were recommending her brand of Pure Delight chocolate bars to their patients as being good for their blood vessels and hearts. Janette also learned that a host of doctors were telling each other about it and actually were

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buying her high quality natural dark chocolate bars in large wholesale quantities and selling them at retail to their patients. To her credit, when Jeanette began realizing she needed to expand her manufacturing process to keep up with the sales demand of her now famous Pure Delight dark chocolate bars, she insisted on a cold process of the cocoa bean into powdered chocolate. She knew that a heat process would destroy as much as 80 percent of the nutritional value of her chocolate. Jeanette was told that there was no mass cold-process manufacturing method for chocolate yet invented or utilized. She insisted that her manufacturing company design and create their own patented mass cold processing method for converting the cocoa bean into a pure chocolate powder while retaining its natural high nutritional value, which through her continued uncompromising insistence was soon done. Bless her heart.

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From information I have gleaned, 100 grams of spinach has a 1,260 ORAC rating, while 100 grams of Pure Delight (sold now also under a different name) has a 26,000 ORAC rating. This makes Janette's dark chocolate bar 20 times more powerful than spinach! Therefore, Popeye might have been 20 times more powerful if he had chosen to eat a few ounces of luscious dark chocolate rather than gobble down a whole can of green spinach! (SMILE)) In checking Google, I see that Jeanette Brooks has now brought two chocolate companies into existence and each of the two is worth of 400 million dollars. This lady is surely a huge boon to the pure, dark chocolate industry worldwide You can Google more info about Jeanette (telling her own story) at: XOCAI (Sho-sigh) Chocolate for Health on Squidoo.

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CHOCOLATE Health Drinks Beat Out Other Drinks in ORAC Value Greatly

oogled Organic Chocolate mix drink reports found worth sharing Vitamins & Minerals

The Mexican Mayan Kings drank up to 30 pure chocolate drinks per day to maintain an ORAC value of 95500. Squidoo: Mayans and Aztecs used cacao in a royal chocolate drink called Xocolatl. Instant Bliss Beauty Drink Health, an organic dark chocolate beauty drink by Eccobella claims chocolate's ORAC value is more than two times higher! Xocai dark chocolate beverage. The most impressive aspect of this modern chocolate beverage is its high antioxidant content. The ORAC value of one ounce of the Xoai Beverage is 3097.

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XOCAI (Sho-sigh) Chocolate for Health: The chart that was shown contained the ORAC values of several high-antioxidant Health by Chocolate reports that their chocolate's ORAC value is more than two times higher! They report both their health by chocolate bar and health by chocolate drinks contain only 2 teaspoons of sugar.

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Guideline in Shopping For Highest Quality CHOCOLATE

The most healthfully beneficial chocolate bars or chocolate drinks will have at least 60 percent or more (70 percent or more is better) of cocoa in them. Most chocolate bars fall far short of that. The widely sold dark chocolate for baking may often contain only 39 percent or less cocoa. Even well known brands of milk chocolate sold worldwide such as the Hershey's brand may contain only 30 percent cocoa.

aim to be brief and to the point here.

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TIP: Look through chocolate bars at your local health food or natural food stores or at chocolate sold through natural food outlets on the easily accessible internet via Google or your favorite search engine. Check for yourself which bars and which brands contain the most cocoa and the least chemical ingredients. If any way possible, buy and consume only dark chocolate that has NOT been chemically processed or heat treated. Cold-pressed chocolate, cereals, grains, etc., are by far the most healthful foods you can ingest. A standard rule when you read labels is the fewer number of ingredients or chemical-sounding additives in any food you buy, chocolate included, the more natural and more healthfully nutritious it will be. Do NOT buy chocolate bars made with margarine or hardened oil instead of pure natural cocoa butter.

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NOTE: Heart attacks, gall bladder stones, diabetes, etc., became major diseases or grave illnesses only after margarines and hard oils such as canola oil (rapeseed oil) were allowed by an obviously miscreant FDA to be smuggled into and made part and parcel of most of our processed foods. Finally, the higher cost trade of greater nutritional value far outweighs the lesser cost of an inferior chocolate bar or chocolate drink.

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Your Body Deserves the Best Quality CHOCOLATE

f you have read any of my more than 30 books, you will know that I regard our human embodiments as a sacred abode of our human soul. Therefore, it ought to be no surprise that I recommend you seek and find the highest quality sources of dark chocolate bars or dark chocolate drink mixes you can findeven if you have to make the chocolate bars or chocolate drink mixes with your divine human body's own two hands. Hippocrates knew that value of eating the best natural foods if you want to ingest the best possible known medicine in the world. When it comes to chocolate, why not be wise and treat your body with the best kind of natural medicine that Hippocrates himself would choose. Look for the
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Join Me in Spreading the GOOD WORD About Our So Lovable CHOCOLATE

sn't it time that everyone knew about the surprising and pleasing fact that chocolate is good for health? It certainly is time for you and me to be the bearer of good news about the amazing very high nutritional value of chocolate. Yes, indeed. It is also highly important to recognize and to emphasize that it is the organic or raw, cold-pressed, unprocessed, darker chocolate that is jampacked with nutritional value for your body and mine.

We addressed the fact that raw foods, whether milk, fresh ripe fruits, fresh ripe veggies, or ripe unprocessed grains, cereals, nuts, etc., are the most beneficial to our bodily health in a former chapter, so no need to stress that fact further.
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I felt in my heart and soul a genuine call to duty to write this book, Chocolate For Health knowing innately the truth about the high nutritional value of chocolate. This truth has been ignored by the mainstream, dark-controlled press that works mainly to support the sale of drugs and the plethora of additives in our daily foods, to the detriment of our health. Big Pharm and dark One World Corporate powers reap the clearly observed, huge shameful income benefit from the control of all of our major religious, financial, political and government bodies on Earth. Here are some of the things you can do with chocolate or cocoa powder. You may add it to your favorite smoothies (one heaped tablespoon will do) and watch them instantly become raw chocolate masterpieces! You can blend it with raw coconut oil and agave nectar for instant raw chocolate syrup! (Then put this on top of raw ice cream or fresh fruitAMAZING!) You can blend it in a food processor with raw nut butters and agave nectar for
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the most delicious desert you've ever had. (In fact, similar nut butters mixed with roasted cocoa powder are very expensive in health food stores.) You can make any cookie, brownie or pie more chocolate tasting and delicious by just adding a tablespoon or more to taste. You can blend it with sweet almond milk. This results in a creamy dark chocolate milk that's LOADED with antioxidant power and tastes out of this world! Make your own chocolate and so much more! It is my hope that you will feel the call within your own heart and soul to spread the facts that chocolate is good for your health far and wide across our Earth. Bless you. Bless us all.

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ALARMING FACTS About the FDA and the USDA Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr Herbert Ley, in testimony before a U.S. Senate hearing, commented: People think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day. The financial and political influence of this medical community has almost totally subverted the original intent of our regulatory agencies. They routinely approve death-dealing, ineffective drugs with insufficient testing. Here too, so very obviously, the FDA is NOT to be trusted as our public guardian! ALERT: From the Organic Consumers Organization USDA SAYS ALMONDS LABELED AS 'RAW' CAN ACTUALLY BE PASTEURIZED Under pressure from industrial agriculture lobbyists, the USDA has quietly ap110

proved a new regulation that will effectively end distribution of raw almonds, while putting many family farmers out of business. The rule requires pasteurization of almonds, including organic, yet allows those same almonds to continue to be labeled as raw. Nutritionists point out that raw, organic almonds are far superior in terms of nutrition than pasteurized almonds. One of the FDA-recommended pasteurization methods requires the use of propylene oxide, which is classified as a possible human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and is banned in Canada, Mexico and the European Union. Organic and family-scale almond farmers are protesting the proposed rule, saying it will effectively put them out of business, since the minimum price for the pasteurization equipment is $500,000.

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The USDA claims pasteurization is necessary since there have been two food contamination incidents with raw almonds since 2001. But both of these incidents were, in fact, the result of blatant mismanagement on large industrial-scale almond farms. Take action now to demand that the FDA reopen this proposed rule to public comments: http://www.organicconsumers.org/ articles/article_5227.cfm

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Taxing Facts Relative to our Health and Personal Well Being Note: At first this highly revelatory poem seems rather funnythen you realize the awful truth of it as you read on. It seems crystal-clear that taxes are not good for anyone's health! Tax Him from Birth to Death Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table at which he's fed. Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule. Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt. Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think. Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries, then Tax his tears.

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Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways to tax his ass. Tax all he has then let him know you won't be done till he has no dough. When he screams and hollers, then tax him some more, Tax him till he's good and sore. Then tax his coffin , Tax his grave, Tax the sod in which he's laid. Put these words upon his tomb, Taxes drove me to my doom. When he's gone, Do not relax, Its time to apply the inheritance tax

Accounts Receivable Tax Building Permit Tax CDL license Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax Excise Taxes Federal Income Tax Federal Unemployment Tax

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(FUTA) Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel Permit Tax Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon) Gross Receipts Tax Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax Inventory Tax Liquor Tax Luxury Taxes Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Personal Property Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service Charge Tax Road Usage Tax Sales Tax Recreational Vehicle Tax School Tax Provincial Income Tax Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax
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Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago.100 years ago we had absolutely no national debt. What happened? Can you spell sell-out politicians? Can you spell sell-out governments? Can you spell The Beast? Can you spell the sleeping masses? If so, you are certainly on the track of how, why and what happened in this past century. Meanwhile, keep your spirit light and joyful and know that Creator God Source has a far better plan for usso enjoy your chocolate and spread the uplifting news far and wide about what you now know about Chocolate for HEALTH. Bless us all!

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Recommended High Vibration Books and Study Data

Heavenletters - Book One, by Gloria Wendroff. Gloria has received over two thousand Heavenletters; one hundred fit in one book, so expect a huge series of books soon worldwide. Incredibly high vibration. The book currently is published in English, German, Greek, Romanian, and is expected to be published in about 15 more languages soon. Gloria also conducts awesome Godwriting Workshops. I attended one she held in Munich, Germany. It was fantastic. Join Glorias worldwide email list to receive her FREE daily email Heavenletter by signing up on her website at www.heavenletters.org. Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks. The Law of Attraction, by Esther and Jerry Hicks. Hay House, Inc. - P.O. Box 5100, Carlsbad, CA 92018 USA; www.hayhouse.com; 800-654-5146. Extremely high vibration. Read ALL of what they offer. Take a world cruise with Esther and Jerry. See study data, books, CDs, etc., at www.abraham-hicks.com
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Home With God, by Neale Donald Walsch. Atria books. I highly recommend ALL the Conversations With God books by Neale Donald Walsch, likewise, a very, very incredibly high vibration. All four of the Matthew books by Suzanne Ward., and Tell Me About Heaven, by Suzanne Ward. Terrific insights. Matthew died at 17 and speaks from Heaven. Great E.T. information. Suzanne Ward is on my top 10 list of current spiritual authors. Email: suz@matthew.books.com. SETH Speaks, by Jane Roberts. Read all of the many SETH books. Autobiography of a Yogi, by Yogananda Parmahansa. A classic that is published in 40 or more languages. Be sure to read this one. Wowee! The Masters of the Far East, by Baird Spaulding (series of four books). Very inspirational and a fascinating adventures read. The Seven Rays, by Alice A Bailey. All 20-plus books in the Alice A. Bailey series. The Magic Presence, by Godfre Ray King. All of the 20-plus St. Germain I Am book series by Godfre Ray King.
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ALL Deepak Chopra books ALL Louise Hays books ALL my own Russ Michael books (please see the final section, Final Note from the Author Scribe, for information on how to obtain eBooks and how to subscribe to my FREE daily email Michael Worldwide Newsletter) Finding Your Soulmate, by Russ Michael. In 13 languages, this best seller is still selling strong after 35 years. Publisher: Jan Johnson Red Wheel/Weiser Books/Conari Press, 500 3rd Street, Suite 230, San Francisco, CA 94107. Phone: 415-978-2665, x102. Fax: 415-8691022. Email: JJohnson@redwheelweiser.com or visit their website at www.redwheelweiser.com. Your Soulmate is Calling, by Russ Michael. Hazard PressNew Zealand (in 12 languages). Email: Danielle@hazard.co.nz or visit their website at www.hazardpress.com. Autobiography of an IMMORTAL, by Michael, I Am (AKA Russ Michael). Already contracted for publication in Romanian, Greek and German. I am expecting to contract publication with an English language publication soon. Available to publishers in Word or as a PDF
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file through email: contact@RussMichaeleBooks.com. THE SECRETis No Secret Anymore. ASK and There Is NOTHING You Cannot BEDO or HAVE, by Russ Michael. Available through this publisher, and probably many others worldwide. Available to publishers in Word or as a PDF file through my email: contact@RussMichaeleBooks.com OR order directly from the website www.TheSecretIsNoSecret.com Soulmates, Twin Rays and Special Lovers, by Russ Michael. Latest authored book is expected to be published in many languages soon. Available to publishers in Word or as a PDF file through my email: contact@RussMichaeleBooks.com. HARNESSING the Power of The Universe, by Russ Michael. Coming up next. When completed, it will be available to publishers in Word or as a PDF file through email: contact@RussMichaeleBooks.com
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Dear Michael Every word pours from you like gold. Gloria Wendroff [Heavenletters] Dear Michael: I'm working hard on myself so I could have this 'equal' to drop in, soon I hope! I am just now reading the part about 'what' we are really looking for in our soulmate etc. It's most inspiring Michael. Thanks a ton! Many blessings to you and yours I am enjoying the Ebooks I received and am really grateful that you have put this material altogether so well and easy for anyone to understand, with no conditions around it except to understand and choose to convert the information to knowledge. Thank you very much for all the work you are doing. Blessings, Sybil I love the newsletter....It's the only way I can stay in the know of what's happening "up/out there".....Love&Light to your lightworking as well as mine...............Wayne S.

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Dearest Russ Michael, First of all "You rock"! Thanks for being such a light, and helping to spread the love. I would like to have yesterday's Michele Eloff from Africa's report part two... I so thank you my brother.... Namaste, Sophia (Rev. Sophia of Sedona)

What Readers Say

Thank you for autographing my copy of Finding Your Soul-Mate. ...the book was fascinating. My days....were filled with enlightenment. Your lecture and books added tremendously to such. I bought two books then and want to order 3 more. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your books. As I read them I cry and am electrified as my being comes to know and understand the forces uplifting within. I have enjoyed two of your books already my neighbor is now reading your [book about] White Brotherhood. They're fine books. Just finished The Secret Great White Brotherhood and almost finished with Why & How of Medita-

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tion. Must say I am thoroughly enjoying each of them. Send me catalog of all your books, tapes, etc. put my name on your mailing list for other items I would like to know more about you and your work. I obtained the pamphlet There is No Death. ... Please send me as many copies as this will pay for including postage ... I feel the concept is one which will bring great personal happiness to many who are not fortunate enough to believe in this. Send Russ Michael books I enjoyed Finding Your Soulmate and look forward to reading the others. Dr. Michael has opened a whole new dimension for me...I agree with Don Curtis, Russ Michael is great and more, he is. Just wanted you to know how much Finding Your Soul-Mate meant to me...I have given away about 5-6 copies of your book. Your lectures and ideas set forth in your book FINDING YOUR SOUL-MATE still have us searching for ours. The time we spent with you created another level of consciousness...we all enjoyed it very much. ...glad you decided to return to this planet for a while, we need you.
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Ive loaned SOUL-MATES to Sue Ann, WHITE MAGIC to Billie, and Im reading the MYSTERIES. I found your book Finding Your Soul-Mate at the ICC Brotherhood." I literally could not put it down till I had completely read it. Bless you. I want to let you know how much many of us in Omaha enjoyed your latest books. CELEBRITIES I certainly applaud your intention and efforts to bring more responsible programming to television, and to foster a spiritual cleansing in our nation. -Pat Boone By the way, Sue Ann said she mentioned to you about Willie Nelson loving your book, The Great White Brotherhood, and that he wanted more copies of itmaybe a half dozen or so would do it for now. Note: Willie shared this book with Kris Kristofferson and many of his other peers. This book also led to a deep spiritual and personal friendship between Willie and me, as disclosed in my autobiography. MAN IN PRISON

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I do feel very enlightened by your teachings and by thismy efforts to create good positive soul force has greatly improved.

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Workshop last Saturday was very meaningful to me...I have been studying your book on Meditation. It is wonderful. ...a lifetime Experience to my husband and myself. Just a short note to let you know what a profound effect you have had on my life and the lives of many others since your visit to St. Louis. I must say you are the first teacher that I have met that has left us with so much knowledge, and so very much to think about for a long time to come. I got what I needed from your lecture...thank you for your help and encouragement.

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A huge thank you for a super terrific training conference. The quality of the training ... was the most outstanding of any conference or seminar Ive ever attended. Russ, thanks so very much for giving our community this wonderful opportunity to hear TRUTH. You are an exceptionally gifted teacher and I want to tell you that I am personally grateful for what you have brought to us. Thanks for a real experience found during your seminar in Dallas...to find new and real beliefs. Thank you again for coming to Tucson and sharing your light and knowledge with us, we enjoyed your visit above all else this year...want to add a word of personal praise to your books, I read them all and am suggesting them to many others. My friend...of St. Louis called me today and told me about the wonderful experience she had in attending your lecture and seminar there. Im very sorry not to have been present. You have left me much to think about, probe into, thrill over and work with. Thank you for another marvelous workshop.

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Two years ago Russ Michael gave a seminar on the mysteries here in Santa Cruz. I have made rapid progress since then. It was truly a blessing to be able to attend your lecture...all of us in Little Rock are waiting with open arms for your return. We want to tell you how much everyone appreciated your enlightening lectures and workshops. So many people have been helped with the formula for creating a better self image. A huge thank you for a super terrific training conference. The quality of the training...was the most outstanding of any conference or seminar Ive ever attended. Doors are opening for me on subtle levels...as I examine my current belief systems and see the effect they have been having on me. Its a very interesting time. ...it gives me such pleasure and joy to be saying to you"thank you for your helpyou brought love back into my life. Your instructions had the effect of synthesizing all the previous information I received.

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I might add that I have read several of your books and find them quite complementary to my own studies and experience. Im writing to thank you for your books and your work... your writing has been a great help to many of my students and friends. Fate had it that I didnt meet you personally Saturday when you spoke at AUMI must say you left a Glorious Impression all I heard was he is so gentle and lovingsome said you were just like mewhich means you must be terrific. And from another instructor who heads a new-age institution: "You help us all to see ourselves in the true light of love and great potential! I want to add a word of personal praise to your books. I read them all and am suggesting them to those who are truly seeking. We have adopted your words as our motto. We uphold all that unites, uplifts and expands, etc. Beautiful!

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What TV Viewers Say

I enjoyed you so on Damien Simpsons program. Please tell me how much "Soul-Mates" is so I can order it right away. I trust you and would heed your words...just being able to write to you is a pearl of great price.

What Radio Listeners Say

I listened to you on the radio...never have I been so delighted at such a public declaration of Truth, and what with all the hurdles that were thrown in your direction by the M.C. and all those who called in later on. I must say how overjoyed I was to hear question after question met with such spontaneous lucidity and thoroughness, in a manner that, in most cases, the questioner seemed to be able to understand and relate to on one level or another. Amazing all the soul force a radio show like that can stir up, all over a city.

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Appreciation from Universities

...our appreciation of your lecture here at St. Cloud State and to tell you of the widespread interest in your commentary throughout the campus. You adapted yourself well...and presented your format in an easily understood manner. I would like to thank you for the interesting and informative presentation you gave to St. Johns University...the Psychology Club felt that the evening was most successful and appreciate the boost your appearance gave our program.

Appreciation from Unity Churches

Thank you for sharing your insights and your consciousness with Unity of Little Rock. I feel that your philosophy blends very well with Unitys thinking and I welcome your return to the Little Rock area. -Don Bould Russ Michael is truly a teacher of the New Age. His books, lectures and seminars have reached thousands of students, inspiring them to find within their own consciousness the spiritual expansion and direction which will lead them to true soul ful-

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fillment. I consider him truly one of the highly evolved and inspired teachers in the world today. I know that all who are in touch with him will be inspired and will gain new vision for their own potential. -Donald Curtis

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CHOCOLATE for HEALTH The Amazing Health Benefits of Chocolate Russ Michael asks the Queens and Kings of Chocolate to indulge their minds with this new Blockbuster eBook. Now is the perfect time to learn about the amazing health benefits of Chocolate. The Secret Doctrine of the Ancient Mysteries Through your awareness of these once secret MYSTERIES--and their study and use of the laws outlined within them--you are enabled to escape the old prison house of matter. You realize your true identity as the soul. You find a true recognition of your source as a spirit. The Secret Great White Brotherhood Is life as we know it here upon earth more than a mere accident of nature? Is there a deeper, higher, broader and truer meaning to your life and mine than what we feel or perceive at this moment in space and time? All these important questions -

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and many more - may fully be answered for you in this volume. The Secret is No Secret Anymore If you want to understand more about The SECRET mysterious powers of the Universe, read the authoritative work by world renown author, Russ Michael. This is a how-to guide for everything you desire. "The SECRET" is expanding with light speed before our eyes! GOD and MIRACLE HEALTH Part 1 Part 1 is FREE! It is jam-packed with life-saving information on the benefits of Miracle Products, Miracle Services and Miracle Mind. Download your FREE copy today. GOD and MIRACLE HEALTH Part 2 Part 2 contains all of the "How-To" self-help resources and information to attain Miracle Health, including the story of Jim Humble and his fight against the world's diseases using his 100 percent effective MMS Product formula. Learn how he battled malaria to discover the formula that has cured 75,000 cases so far.

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Finding Your Soulmate This best-selling classic was first published in 1971, when Russ Michael brought the concept of and the actual word "Soulmate" into mass consciousness on Earth. While most books are out of print in a few years, this book is still a top-selling item over 37 years later and read in 12 languages worldwide. Autobiography of an IIMMORTAL The exciting true story about the life and adventures of Russ Michael. If you want to understand more about the powers of the universe, learn from a key world spiritual mentor, himself. Russ Michael shares his personal experiences from a very low point in 1965 when he found himself homeless, barely eking out a daily existence and living in abject poverty, to his experiences founding global companies and traveling the world. This incredible story puts you into the mind of the man who has worked for decades to bring readers The Light. The Secret of Sex and Sexual Attraction You can draw anyone or any thing to you by the deliberate use of the Law of Attraction and a large personal
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stock of pheromones. "Your conscious co-creator job on Earth is to learn how to live your life fully in a safe world. In that safe world, you will most aptly find that sex is good. Violence against another is bad, guilt is bad, to judge is bad, regret is bad, and even living in the past is bad - but sex is good!" Soulmates, Twin Rays and Special Lovers Given a choice (and who does not have free choice?) most of us on Earth today would choose sharing what remains of this day and the remaining days of our physical human life on Earth with a warm, fun-loving Soulmate or a genuinely blissful Twin Ray or special lover. Your Soulmate is Calling Somewhere deep inside every one of us is the knowledge that somewhere-at this very moment--someone special is calling out to us for recognition. Your Soulmate is calling you, wherever on earth he or she resides. Your Soulmate is sending out a distress signal. The essence of his or her signal is: Where are you? I am waiting here for you. I want you!

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FINDING MR. RIGHT OR MRS. RIGHT Mr. Right or Mrs. Right wants you as much as you want him or her. You only need to know what you really want. Combine that decision with the knowledge you gain here about how to increase your attractiveness or personal magnetism, and you are already moving forward on your way to a really, really bright and RIGHT love relationship! Why not recognize and swiftly cut those painful cords that bind you to the past? The SECRET PROVEN FORMULA to WEALTH, HEALTH & TRUE LOVE All that magic means is the wise use of applied knowledge. The word stems from Magi, wise men from the East. As you read on, you will soon notice that I make many references to law. The Birth of Earth as a Star End times is not an idle phrase. The old is about to vanish and the new is already starting to begin. What is the END at one level of being is the BEGINNING at another.

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Life in the Dead Zone Death is merely the cessation of three-dimensional motion. It is a personal state of rest that will return to a state of motion again. Rest and motion, or death and life, are now, and have been forever, interwoven. Eleven Magic Steps to Success There is nothing you cannot be, do or have. You only need to ASK - and through the sacred heritage of who and what you are, your every request is granted at the moment it is made. The Mental Room of Mirrors The Room of Mirrors self-therapy technique - presented here is indeed a valid precious gift to humanity. I know it well and I am pleased to pass on this powerful healing technique along to humanity in this volume. 100 True RAMTHA Miracle Stories I wish to personally thank each and all of these grand masters who have shared their experiences with me and whose beautiful, inspiring miracle stories are now here presented to be shared with you.

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There is NOTHING You Cannot BE, DO or HAVE The real gold is found in and through your own creative thought or socially cooperative co-creative ideas coupled with the fire--or the fuel--of a desire for something in you so strong you can taste it. When GOD Speaks, I Listen Have you noticed in a loud crowd that when someone suddenly speaks up in a soft and quiet voice how everyone now stops talking to listen? That is how God usually speaks, in soft whispers! Why & How of Meditation As you progress in the art of meditation, you discover--perhaps with astonishment--that the most profound things in life are more simply expressed. A Blockbuster classic! Read by thousands in print!

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Final note from the author scribe...

In addition to my best-seller, Finding Your Soulmate, which is still selling in 12 languages, I have written more than 20 published self-help books and I invite you to obtain and read them all. After my death experience at age 18 and in the unfolding due course of my spiritual work, I have received thousands of letters of gratitude from readers of my books and from many grateful attendants of my workshops who have found their soulmates or their Twin Ray life companions, or made their wildest, most impossible dreams come true. A few days ago, I received an email from someone who recently obtained and read my 360-page autobiography.

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Dear kindly eBook reader, This is what Carolyn Tester had to say to me about Autobiography of an IMMORTAL. Bless her heart. I don't think I have ever enjoyed reading anything as I am now doing with your autobiography. I'm now beginning to read slower and slower as the end of it gets nearer a habit I've acquired when in a GOOD read. Love to you and yours, Carolyn Tester

If you enjoyed this or any other books of mine, please encourage your loved ones, friends and associates to obtain and read them all.

I suggest that you obtain my own Autobiography of an IMMORTAL or any of my current eBookssoon to be 35 or more.

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Enquire now (or later) at: www.TheSecretIsNoSecretAnymore.com Or contact me at my personal email address: Michael@RussMichaeleBooks.com

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and ask to be subscribed. (Again, this is free. Just ask!) We appreciate and love to have new readers come to Russ Michael eBooks through you.

Bless your heart, forever and forever. Bless us all. We are all blessed.

In living and loving gratitude to All That Is I AmRuss Michael

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