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I like to eat chocolate, but I also afraid of getting fat & eating too much sweet & sugary foods. So to satisfy my crave for chocolate, I choose more for dark chocolates nowadays.

We all know chocolate has lots of benefits, dark chocolate coz it is made more from pure chocolate, therefore it contains more ingredients.

Some benefits are:

It makes a person feel good. It stimulates the body to produce endorphins. It also contains substances that act as stimulants, making a person feel more alert and ready for action. It even contains a substance called serotonin, which can help to prevent depression.

Dark chocolate contains antioxidants, we all know antioxidants is one of the substance to prevent / slowing aging, prevent cancer and those anomaly cell breaking. It was claimed that dark chocolate contains more antioxidants than fruit such as strawberry.

Dark chocolate also was said help to lower cholesterol. It can reduce the bad type of cholesterol, referred to as LDL.

The other compound found in dark chocolate called  phenols is claimed to be able to help lowering high blood pressure.

So, still scared eating chocolate ? Not to me, I’ve never scared eating chocolate no matter what the effect, it’s just very fortunate chocolate has more good than the bad effects.

Enjoy your dark chocolate!

So you have bunch of data in excel, you sort it, filter it, hide it, or in any other way that left you with the data you want in your excel sheet.

Then you want to copy your processed data, the one that’s only seen on your screen, the one that you have hid and left unhidden, that’s called the visible data.

This is how you copy the visible / unhidden data to another excel:

klik on the upper left cell of the sheet:

–> Office 2003

press F5 for short cut , or

press Edit –> Go to –> Special –> Visible Cells only

then copy & paste it to the location desired.

–> for Office 2007

on the Home Tab , Editing Group, click Find & Select –> Go To –> Special –> Visible Cells only

then copy & paste to desired place.

There, you got your data copied

I know it sounds like a liquor drink with chocolate as the taste, but it isn’t (even though there might be a liquor tasted chocolate ,, humm.. hehe), it actually is the liquid form of dark chocolate.

It is the result of grounded chocolate nibs* into paste, it’s pure and can be sold as baking, bitter, or unsweetened chocolate. Or processed into other real chocolate products like chips, candy or enrobing chocolate (used for coating).

Unsweetened chocolate which through the same process, is essentially the same as that chocolate liquor, which is the base of all dark chocolates.
*please see on the other article titled: Pure dark chocolate ingredients

What’s dark chocolate made of ? simple, pure cocoa bean

But of course I wouldn’t just stop this article until there, hehe. That is the short explanation, the long one is like this:

The chocolate tree: Theobroma cacao, it produces pods containing cocoa beans not chocolate, then the beans is going through processes.
The first step is fermentation. It causes critical chemical changes in the beans needed to coax the chocolate flavor out. The beans have a unique flavor but don’t taste like chocolate, yet.

Then, they must be roasted, proper roasting brings out the flavor and aroma of the chocolate and reduces the bitterness. Precise time and temperature control are crucial to get the desired taste. Then their shells are ready to be removed from the beans.

So, the fermented, roasted & shell discarded of cocoa beans called: Cocoa nibs –> flesh of the bean. This tasteless pure chocolate smells cocoa beans are ready to be eaten to those who love the taste and is officially called “dark Chocolate”

As we all heard and know, red wine is good for health & heart vessels, for those who don’t like to drink red wine purely (like me, i like it, but not so fond & enough for the amount that’s supposed to be drink to get its advantages), maybe you can try to make this drink as the variation:

* 1/2 pound fresh strawberries, sliced

* 1 each peach, orange, lime, all thinly sliced

* 2 cups red wine

* 1 ounce cherry liqueur

* 1 cup club soda

Preparation

Place fruit in a large, chilled glass pitcher. Add wine and liqueur; stir. Cover and refrigerate for 12 hours. Remove from fridge, and add club soda; stir. Fill 4 glasses halfway with ice cubes; add sangria. Garnish with lime wedge, strawberry, and a mint leaf.

Health, JULY 2009