The Healing Power of Chocolate, Tea, and Nuts

Book excerpt: With this collection, you get three books for the price of one: The Healing Power of Chocolate; The Healing Power of Tea; The Healing Power of Nuts. The Healing Power of Chocolate chronicles the positive ways chocolate can affect your health. For example, chocolate can: • Help prevent heart disease and stroke • Improve blood-sugar control in people with diabetes • Defend cells from damage that can lead to cancer and dementia The Healing Power of Tea relates everything you need to know to enjoy tea. The book explains how to store and brew tea so that it retains its antioxidant powers, and also how to make the most of tea's healing properties, which include: • Preventing heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dental caries • Boosting your body's immunity The Healing Power of Nuts reveals the numerous benefits of enjoying nuts in moderation, including: • Their natural abundance of protein, antioxidants, and essential vitamins • How the main type of fat in nuts lowers levels of "bad" cholesterol • Why nuts can help protect you from heart disease, heart attack, and stroke This 3 books in 1 collection will help you understand how foods can improve how you feel and keep you healthy.