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It is amazing as more and more time go by... the amount of News and Media attention that is coming to light about the wonderful benefits of Dark Chocolate. below is an article recently done on people covering theirselves, even to the point of bathing, in Chocolate due to the Benefits it has on the skin. For those of us that LOVE chocolate anyway....this becomes a WIN-WIN situation with the Health Benefits it can have.
Now when you factor in the Healthy Chocolate-Xocai....a whole new Perspective is shined on a issue that is ALREADY making Headlines....Eating Chocolate-Guilt Free!
After all, as it has been said: "EveryBody Loves Chocolate!"
October 16, 2006
Japanese gals are swarming to get chocolate for its health and beauty effects, even if that means bathing in it or using it in their soap, according to Shukan Josei (10/24).
"Cocoa in chocolate contains polyphenol, a substance that rids the body of the active oxygen that causes aging," Ochanomizu Women's University medical professor Kazuo Kondo tells Shukan Josei, adding that the popular treat is also packed with healthy minerals and fiber.
Tokyo beauty clinic, PMK, has also found chocolate to be a tasty business proposition. PMK is known for offering a variety of unusual body baths, including the chance to soak in water from the Dead Sea or even red wine, but chocolate baths are proving a stylish specialty.
People undergoing a chokkie bath are laid face-down on a massage table and smeared in a paste made of chocolate with magnesium added to it to make the concoction into a bubbly froth. While still coated in chocolate, they're then wrapped entirely in an aluminum space blanket and left to sweat, which nearly everybody who goes through the procedure apparently does in bucket loads.
"It'll leave your skin as smooth as glass for a week," PMK's director Tomoko Mitanda tells Shukan Josei. "Around Valentine's Day, we even get couples coming in together to have chocolate baths."
Bathing, a specialty store in Tokyo's Minato-ku, is also getting its bite of the chocolate pie boom. Decked out like a typical ice-cream parlor, Bathing sells products that look and smell like chocolate, but are actually things like bath scents, bubble bath and soap. It also stocks a chocolate moisturizing lotion.
"Sometimes when I'm showing the products off to people, I'm almost tempted to take a bite out of them," Bathing's Takayuki Uehara says.
Meiji Confectionary, one of Japan's biggest chocolate manufacturers, is also making hay while the sun shines. It has opened 100% Chocolate Caf? on the first floor of its Tokyo factory. The establishment is a chocolate lover's delight, selling 56 different types of chocolate from all over the world.
"We want as many people as possible to enjoy the taste and feel the depth that can be found in chocolate," Meiji spokesman Shuntaro Okabe tells Shukan Josei. "That's what made us to decide to build this place, which we hope will become a base for information about chocolate to be spread around the world." (By Ryann Connell)
(source: The Mainichi Daily News)
Now when you factor in the Healthy Chocolate-Xocai....a whole new Perspective is shined on a issue that is ALREADY making Headlines....Eating Chocolate-Guilt Free!
After all, as it has been said: "EveryBody Loves Chocolate!"
October 16, 2006
Japanese gals are swarming to get chocolate for its health and beauty effects, even if that means bathing in it or using it in their soap, according to Shukan Josei (10/24).
"Cocoa in chocolate contains polyphenol, a substance that rids the body of the active oxygen that causes aging," Ochanomizu Women's University medical professor Kazuo Kondo tells Shukan Josei, adding that the popular treat is also packed with healthy minerals and fiber.
Tokyo beauty clinic, PMK, has also found chocolate to be a tasty business proposition. PMK is known for offering a variety of unusual body baths, including the chance to soak in water from the Dead Sea or even red wine, but chocolate baths are proving a stylish specialty.
People undergoing a chokkie bath are laid face-down on a massage table and smeared in a paste made of chocolate with magnesium added to it to make the concoction into a bubbly froth. While still coated in chocolate, they're then wrapped entirely in an aluminum space blanket and left to sweat, which nearly everybody who goes through the procedure apparently does in bucket loads.
"It'll leave your skin as smooth as glass for a week," PMK's director Tomoko Mitanda tells Shukan Josei. "Around Valentine's Day, we even get couples coming in together to have chocolate baths."
Bathing, a specialty store in Tokyo's Minato-ku, is also getting its bite of the chocolate pie boom. Decked out like a typical ice-cream parlor, Bathing sells products that look and smell like chocolate, but are actually things like bath scents, bubble bath and soap. It also stocks a chocolate moisturizing lotion.
"Sometimes when I'm showing the products off to people, I'm almost tempted to take a bite out of them," Bathing's Takayuki Uehara says.
Meiji Confectionary, one of Japan's biggest chocolate manufacturers, is also making hay while the sun shines. It has opened 100% Chocolate Caf? on the first floor of its Tokyo factory. The establishment is a chocolate lover's delight, selling 56 different types of chocolate from all over the world.
"We want as many people as possible to enjoy the taste and feel the depth that can be found in chocolate," Meiji spokesman Shuntaro Okabe tells Shukan Josei. "That's what made us to decide to build this place, which we hope will become a base for information about chocolate to be spread around the world." (By Ryann Connell)
(source: The Mainichi Daily News)
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