Benefits of Chocolate
Magnesium in Chocolate?
You betcha!
Benefits of Chocolate
Magnesium in Chocolate
One of the benefits of chocolate is significant amounts of magnesium. Peter Meisel, of the Department of
Pharmacology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, says “a bar of this chocolate supplies the recommended daily allowance of magnesium.”
Jean Mayer, of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (J.B.B.), [...]
Magnesium Deficiency – The Signs
Magnesium Deficiency – What are the Signs?
A magnesium deficiency is very hard to detect without a visit to the doctor for an actual test of your blood levels. However, there are some factors in your life that may suggest deficiency in magnesium that are worth looking at first. These factors fall into two categories:
1- Symptoms [...]
Magnesium and ADHD
Attention deficits, hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and magnesium
There are suggestions that children suffering from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be in fact displaying the results of a mild magnesium deficiency. The deficiency may cause irritability, decreased attention spans, and mental confusion. The clinical study below observed 116 children with ADHD, and found a striking 95% to [...]
Magnesium Miracle
The following is an excerpt from The Miracle of Magnesium by Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, published by Ballantine Books, New York; 2003. This excerpt is from Chapter 1 entitled “The Case for Magnesium: The Personal History of an Element”:
Mary joked that she felt as though she was constantly being run over by a slow-moving bus. [...]