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Effects of cocoa powder and dark chocolate on LDL oxidative susceptibility and prostaglandin concentrations in humans
Ying Wan,Joe A. Vinson,Terry D. Etherton,John Proch,Sheryl A. Lazarus,Penny M. Kris-Etherton +5 more
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Cocoa powder and dark chocolate may favorably affect cardiovascular disease risk status by modestly reducing LDL oxidation susceptibility, increasing serum total antioxidant capacity and HDL-cholesterol concentrations, and not adversely affecting prostaglandins.About:
This article is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 2001-11-01. It has received 342 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dark chocolate & Oxygen radical absorbance capacity.read more
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Dietary Flavanols and Platelet Reactivity
TL;DR: This paper will review a series of in vivo studies on the effects of flavanol-rich cocoa and chocolate on platelet activation and platelet-dependent hemostasis, and briefly review the body of literature with regard to other flavan-3-ols foods and beverages.
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Cardioprotective Effects of Chocolate and Almond Consumption in Healthy Women
K. M. Stote,S. Kurlandsky +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify potentially synergistic or additive effects of combining consumption of dark chocolate with almonds as part of a low-fat diet on circulating levels of serum lipids and inflammatory markers: intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM), vascular adhesion molecules, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein.
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Daily consumption of apple, pear and orange juice differently affects plasma lipids and antioxidant capacity of smoking and non-smoking adults
Emilio Alvarez-Parrilla,Laura A. de la Rosa,Patricia Legarreta,Laura Saenz,Joaquín Rodrigo-García,Gustavo A. González-Aguilar +5 more
TL;DR: Fruit/juice supplementation showed different effects, depending on the smoking habit: in non-smokers it increased TAC and cholesterol; in smokers it reduced cholesterol, whithout inducing a TAC increase.
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Cocoa procyanidin chain length does not determine ability to protect LDL from oxidation when monomer units are controlled
TL;DR: The occurrence of procyanidins in human plasma is confirmed, and previous structure-function observations regarding flavanoid protection of LDL are extended, suggesting that antioxidant activity of proCyanidin activity with biologic substrates is not attributable to chain length or charge delocalization through polymeric linkages, but primarily to ring structures and catechol groups.
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Estimation of the Concentration of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Plasma, Without Use of the Preparative Ultracentrifuge
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Polyphenolic Flavanols as Scavengers of Aqueous Phase Radicals and as Chain-Breaking Antioxidants
N. Salah,Nicholas J. Miller,George Paganga,Lilian B. M. Tijburg,G.P. Bolwell,Catherine Rice-Evans +5 more
TL;DR: Against propagating lipid peroxyl radical species, epicatechin and catechin are as effective as ECG and EGCG, the least efficacious being EGC and GA.