Naked Chocolate: The Astonishing Truth About the World's Greatest Food

341 Pages·2005·8.02 MB·English

by  David Wolfe

Copyright © 2005 by David Wolfe and Sharon Holdstock. All rights
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A Note to the Reader
Each lesson in this book contains facts, concepts, and ideas which build
upon the chapter before it. Therefore, on the first time through, we urge
the reader to avoid skipping the earlier chapters. The reading will surely
prove most fruitful if you begin at the Table of Contents and read
straight through.
Naked Chocolate is written in British English, not American English.
Both authors prefer the British spellings.
Many of the products mentioned in this book are available from
Longevity Warehouse in the USA and Canada
(www.longevitywarehouse.com) and Rawcreation Ltd in the UK
(www.detoxyourworld.com). Longevity Warehouse and Rawcreation Ltd
are committed to providing the most incredible and unique health and
beauty products available in the world today. All products are diligently
researched and tested before they are chosen for distribution.
A Note on References
Due to the haphazard chaos magic research process that created this
book, some references to studies and facts were lost. If you find
information in this book that is unreferenced or unsubstantiated with a
reference, we recommend that you do the book and Internet research to
corroborate the information. If you find a reference that we neglected to
credit, please e-mail it to us via Facebook at www.facebook.com/doxtor
or www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe so that we may include it in
future editions of this book.
A Mayan ball player giving a cacao fruit to a deity
Acknowledgments from David
Amy Gayheart — Thank you for the flyers, labels, smiles, great times
and high vibes! A huge thank you from us both for your stunning cover
design.
Anita Arze — For all the chocolate-loving good times!
Camille “Super Goji Girl” Perrin Giglio — You are a chocolate
superhero.
The Coconut Brothers — Ethan and Eli Schotz for bringing into our
awareness the true meaning and importance of raw cacao beans.
Sky Dancer — For all the best times ever and for supplying us with raw
chocolate from Palenque during our European Tour in the summer of
2003.
Acknowledgments from Shazzie
Matt — Bless you for helping me maintain focus when creating this
book, while I was also growing our Evie and sometimes feeling quite sick
of chocolate, along with everything else!
Toby Darling — Your testing tastebuds were most welcomed.
Peppermint Pattie — For helping me create some of the recipes when I
couldn’t tell you why because this book was still a secret then!
The Coconut Brothers — Ethan and Eli — you are the cutest chocolate
givers in the whole world! Now look what you started!
Mum and Jennie (at www.detoxyourworld.com) — Thank you for
being part of my love-empire — I’m so glad you’re growing with me!
And thank you for being my family, along with my lovely Dad!

Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
A Note to the Reader
A Note on References
Acknowledgments from David
Acknowledgments from Shazzie
Introduction
David
Shazzie
Cacao’s Properties
Part I: Cacao
Legends of Cacao
Theobroma Cacao
A Brief History of Chocolate
Money Does Grow on Trees
Part II: Scientific Properties of Chocolate
Chemical Composition of Cacao
Magnesium
Antioxidants
Methylxanthines: Theobromine and Caffeine
Phenylethylamine
Anandamide (the Bliss Chemical)
Neurotransmitter Modulating Agents
Tryptophan
Part III: Exotic Properties of Chocolate
Aphrodisia
Nobility
Nature’s Prozac (Anti-Depressant Properties of Cacao)
Tryptamines, Phenylalanines, Lactones and Cannabinoids
Chocolate As Medicine