h hot cocoa: health.Sweet! Recent research shows hot cocoa may be the healthiest beverage to warm up with in the frigid frig·id adj. 1. Extremely cold. 2. Persistently averse to sexual intercourse. winter months. "If you have a choice between cocoa, tea, or coffee I definitely recommend cocoa," says researcher Chang Yong Lee of Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. . In his study, Lee compared the levels of antioxidants Antioxidants Substances that reduce the damage of the highly reactive free radicals that are the byproducts of the cells. Mentioned in: Aging, Nutritional Supplements antioxidants, n. (chemicals shown to help prevent cancer, heart disease, and aging) found in hot cocoa, green tea, and black tea. He found that hot cocoa has two to three times more antioxidants than green tea and four to five times more of the health-promoting molecules than black tea. Having a lot of antioxidants doesn't necessarily make something healthier, though. "A cup of cocoa has much higher antioxidant antioxidant, substance that prevents or slows the breakdown of another substance by oxygen. Synthetic and natural antioxidants are used to slow the deterioration of gasoline and rubber, and such antioxidants as vitamin C (ascorbic acid), butylated hydroxytoluene activity than one apple," says Lee. "But an apple also provides fiber and other nutrients that cocoa does not." |
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