Thursday 16 June 2011

Civet Coffee Videos

We are pleased to present you the documentation of Kopi Luwak (Asian Palm Civet Coffee) as follow:

1. Poop Coffee (Courtesy of Planet Animal) 



2. 11 News Team Tries Kopi Luwak  (Courtesy of 11 News Team)

More videos can be found at Picture and Video page.

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Cacao For Your Health

Do you have diabetic, high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol? Eat or drink cacao can assist you to overcome these diseases. Not merely delicious bitter sweet likely in tongue but cacao have awful benefit, truly!  If you are pertained heavy devotee of cacao, you are eligible to be happy of it. It's section, they are who often eat cacao can lessen some risk hit by disease like high blood, diabetes and cholesterol hit by heart attack.


Cacao owns the name of Latin of Theobroma cacao represent plant as highly 10 m coming from South America. This plant have seed able to be yielded as product of consumption, which is ordinary to be known as cacao. 
The scientists find that chemical contents in brown seed of cacao can improve venous performance at patient of hypertension and diabetes. Also influences the level of cholesterol in blood. 

A recently study in Spain also partake to prove, cacao can become natural drug to lessen risk to heart sickness of coroner. Besides, solidarity between low milk and cacao of  fat also have an in with rate level of cholesterol in blood. 


This study have been publicized by Journal Nutrition, Metabolism And Cardiovascular Diseases. Consumption 40 gram of cacao and 500 ml of skim milk per day during 4 week can improve rate of good cholesterol ( HDL) and lessen the level of virulent cholesterol in blood ( LDL)
 This Research entangle 42 volunteer to participate in test-drive at random. Participant which eat cacao regularly during 4 week found to have the make-up of rate of good cholesterol counted 5%. Besides, they who drink chocolate skimmed milk has lower risk to LDL (bad kolestrol) compared to who do not or drink chocolate skimmed milk. 


This matter caused by at  the cacao seed, there are the content of polifenol owns important role to increase of production of molecule of apolipoprotein (Apo) A1. This Molecule represent the main protein component of HDL. 
 Meanwhile, according to the note of Archives Internal of  Medicine in year 2007 then, there are some big benefit of cacao. Chocolate is good to lessening risk of low blood pressure, improving life resilience for the man who hit by heart attack and also can protect husk of damage by free radical ray of UV.