UltraFitnessDynamics Review: Isagenix IsaDelight™
The Delights of IsaDelight™
This new product introduced by Isagenix is so compelling that we decided to add our endorsement to same, in addition to the Isagenix cleansing product line noted in an earlier review. Fans of Woody Allen’s classic cryonics movie Sleeper will surely remember the scene where Woody is revived by futuristic medical advances after two hundred years of suspended animation. Discussing his somewhat addle-brained recovery, the two doctors responsible have a discussion:
Dr. Melik: “…For breakfast, he requested something called ‘wheat germ’, ‘organic honey’, and ‘tiger’s milk’.’
Dr. Orva: “Ah yes. Those were the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.”
Dr. Melik: “You mean… there was no deep fat? No steak, or cream pies, or hot fudge?”
Dr. Orva: “Those were thought to be unhealthy. Precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.”
As the two future doctors shake their heads over the nutritional ignorance of us backwards primitives, the audience laughs. But it looks as though the doctors may have been right on the mark in regards to hot fudge, or at least the chocolate aspect of it. It now appears that the right kind of chocolate can have positive effects on blood flow, blood pressure, antioxidant levels, stoke risk, anxiety and more; and an astounding new designer chocolate, IsaDelight™, has taken chocolate out of the category of pernicious sweet and up to the class of must-have health food.
The IsaDelight™ Edge
It now seems that chocolate is good for you. Per the research below, dark chocolate has been determined to be a powerful antioxidant, with benefits ranging from mood enhancement, strengthening of the immune system, reducing risks of stroke, heart disease, and high blood pressure, and perhaps extension of life span in the near future. But can we really call either a nutritional supplement?
We can now. If it’s IsaDelight™.
The idea behind IsaDelight™ is simple: take the best, healthiest possible, flavonol-rich dark chocolate, and supercharge it with additional amino acids, vitamins, folate acid, lecithin, GABA, inositol, and more. The result is a low-calorie, appetite-suppressing treat that tastes like the finest high-quality chocolate, because it is the finest high-quality chocolate.
The dark chocolate in IsaDelight™ contains more than 70 percent non-alkalized cocoa powder. The powder itself is made using a special low-temperature process. That process not only maintains the cocoa’s natural antioxidants, but also the natural environment. The production of cacao beans used in IsaDelight™ is grown on small family farms near the equator. Isagenix, IsaDelight™’s parent company, stresses the fact that workers are given fair wages and humane working conditions. The production process promotes sustainable forest farmland growth, says Isagenix. (And the chocolate it produces is kosher to boot!)
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IsaDelight™ is more than a good chocolate. IsaDelight™ is a class act – good for your health, good for your body, good for your world, and just plain good, period.
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Science and Chocolate
Researchers agree that the health merits of even conventional chocolate are, surprisingly, wide and varied. Research published by Joseph Vinson of the University of Scranton indicates that flavonoids in chocolate are stronger than ascorbic acid when it comes to protecting circulating lipids from oxidation, a process that, unchallenged, builds the plaque that clogs artery walls. “Chocolate just stands out,” Vinson said.
Further research, presented before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, included studies indicating that flavonols (flavonoids found in cocoa) stop the oxidation of fat-like materials in the bloodstream, reducing the chances of clotting. The study, conducted by lead researcher Dr. Norman K. Hollenberg, physician and professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, inspired by the health profiles of inhabitants of the island of Kuna, in Panama, where residents drink roughly five cups of cocoa daily, and high blood pressure is a rarity.
Yet another study indicated that substances in cocoa help the body process nitric oxide, a compound crucially important for healthy blood flow and blood pressure, leading Hollenberg to note that “if our research results continue to support a link between consumption of flavonol-rich cocoa and nitric oxide synthesis, there could be significant implications for public health.”
Apparently flavonol-rich cocoa and chocolate act much like low-dose aspirin, promoting easy blood flow and reducing the chances of heart attack and stroke, albeit the effects are not as long-lasting in duration. That said, given the choice of healthy chocolate or aspirin, with the former providing numerous other health benefits, who amongst us would choose aspirin unless dictated by a medical specialist?
Furthermore, as reported in Men’s Magazine, a Danish study “found that those who eat dark chocolate consume 15 percent fewer calories at their next meal and are less interested in fatty, salty, and sugary foods. And research shows that dark chocolate can improve heart health, lower blood pressure, reduce LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, decrease the risk of blood clots, and increase blood flow to the brain. Dark chocolate boosts serotonin and endorphin levels, which are associated with improved mood and greater concentration; it’s rich in B vitamins and magnesium, which are noted cognitive boosters; it contains small amounts of caffeine, which helps with short-term concentration; and it contains theobromine, a stimulant that delivers a different kind of buzz, sans the jitters.”
Killing the Pain
Another surprise is that the right type of chocolate may have a positive effect on those suffering from migraine and surprisingly from chronic fatigue syndrome. Chocolate has traditionally been on the list of banned substances for those suffering from CFS; however, it now appears that dark chocolate contains bioactive compounds, such as caffeine, theobromine, tyramine and phenylethylamine that both stimulate alertness and reduce pain; and the amino acid tryptophan, which helps produce the neurotransmitter serotonin, decreasing anxiety, and producing endomorphins, the body’s natural solution to reducing pain. Chocolate as an analgesic? That is the emerging picture.
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Beating the Blueberry
According to studies, cocoa powder, dark chocolate, and even milk chocolate have higher oxygen radical absorption capacity (ORAC) values than blueberries. Antioxidants protect the body from the destructive effects of free radicals, and oxygen radical absorbance capacity is the common measure for identifying antioxidant strength. Vitamin C, beta-carotene, alpha-tocopherol, prunes, blueberries are all prime examples of powerful antioxidants but not more powerful than IsaDelight™ chocolates. Two IsaDelight™ chocolates have an ORAC score of 5,700, whereas a full cup of raw blueberries has an ORAC score of 5,347.
Even more remarkably, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that those who eat chocolate up to three times each month live almost a year longer than those who avoid sweets altogether! The USDA Food Composition Laboratory is convinced: the Laboratory is developing a database reporting flavonoid levels in plant foods, and the plants included specifically include cocoa.
Raw Broccoli or Godiva Chocolates?
Nutritionists would still surely give the edge to the broccoli. But they might think twice if the alternative were IsaDelight™ and that’s what makes this wonderful product not just delicious but significant. Finding unexpected health virtues in a natural product is not uncommon. What is surprising is a company that takes something naturally good and makes it naturally better, in ways that not only support the natural environment that produces it, but that satisfies the natural desire for a delightful treat.
IsaDelight™ is a delight. It’s a prime example of science working with natural nutritional substances to produce health-enhanced products rather than destructive but profitable junk food, and of business working with earth-friendly, sustainable humanitarian values to produce a creative product that helps consumers and producers and the natural environment alike. You feel better eating it, you feel better about eating it, and, pursuant to studies on dark chocolate, your health benefits by eating it.
As teenagers like to say – sweet!
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References:
Adamson GE et al. HPLC method for the quantification of procyanidins in cocoa and chocolate samples and correlation to total antioxidant capacity J Agric Food Chem 1999;47:4184-8.
K Chevaux, L Jackson, ME Villar, J Mundt, J Commisso, G Adamson, MM McCullough, H Schmitz, N Hollenberg Proximate, Mineral and Procyanidin Content of Certain Foods and Beverages Consumed by the Kuna Amerinds of Panama J Food Cmpstn & Anal 2001;14:553-563
Hollman PC, Hertog MGL, Katan MB. Role of dietary flavonoids in protection against cancer and coronary heart disease. Biochem Soc Transact 1996;24:785-9.
Lee IM, Paffenbarger R Life is sweet: candy consumption and longevity BMJ 1998; 317: 1683-1684.
Miraglio A, Chocolate’s Potential for Health Benefits Nutrition Notes May 2001
Vinson JA, Proch J, Zubik L. Phenol antioxidant quantity and quality in foods: cocoa, dark chocolate, and milk chocolate J Agric Food Chem. 1999 Dec;47(12):4821-4.
