Urban Gastronomy: Farm to Bar: Recipes for a Late Summer - Yes

Labor Day, the harbinger of fall is upon us. As much as I look forward to baked apples, frost-sweetened beets, and toasted pumpkin seeds, I will miss the obscene abundance of the late summer greenmarket.?You know how much I geek out when ramps appear each Spring... by now I'm actually wearing my fancy panties on market days and dreaming up scenes for what could my debut novel, Fifty Shades of Green.
Of course, also being quite the lush, I've spent more than one steamy afternoon fantasizing about how to seduce those summer flavors into a cocktail glass.?And so, with gleeful, geeky-green enthusiasm, I hosted?the August meeting of the NY Cocktail Club with a?farm-to-table theme.

Everything on the menu included fruit or vegetables from a local farmer's market. This is not just because I believe in supporting local agriculture; buying locally (within a day or two of hosting) is?essential?for great flavor.?

All of the drink recipes are below. Several require day-before prep and syrup-crafting.?Some of the food recipes are included, but a few required ramp pesto. (I squirreled some away in my freezer!)?All that said, I hope you enjoy at least one cocktail or salad from this menu before the summers end. The Blackberry-Lavender Martini and the Super Fresh Simple Summer Salad are the easiest. Finally, most of the photos were taken by the incredibly talented Mrs. O (Kari Otero). Visit her photo blog for more pics from the club meeting.

And, a huge thank you to the Clubettes for contributing amazing and delicious items!

Farm to Bar: Summer Sips Celebration

Drinks Menu

Blackberry Lavender Martini

Cucumber-Basil Martini

Not-so-Bloody Mary

Cantaloupe-Chartreuse Popsicles
Watermelon-Basil Martini

Tasty Bites Menu

Deviled Eggs with Pickles
Ramp Dip and Chips
Super Fresh Simple Summer Salad?

Forbidden Rice Salad

Pasta Salad with Ramp Pesto, Orange Cherry Tomatos and Feta Cheese

Beer Brats
HA's Watermelon Salad

Drink Recipes

Blackberry Lavender Martini

--1.5 oz gin (Beefeater Summer Edition or similiar)

--.5 oz St. Germain

--.5 oz lemon
--Fresh lavender

--3 blackberries

• Muddle blackberries with a few torn lavender leaves
• Add gin, St. Germain and lemon
• Shake with ice
• Strain through a tea strainer
• Serve up in a martini glass
• Garnish with sprig of lavender flowers

Cucumber-Basil Martini 1

--1.5 oz gin (Bulldog, Hendricks or similar)?

--.75 oz cucumber water (recipe below)

--3-4 torn basil leaves

--.5 oz lime

--2 tsp mild ginger-agave simple syrup*

• Muddle basil leaves with lime in a shaker
• Add gin, cucumber water, and simple syrup
• Shake with ice
• Strain through a tea strainer
• Serve up in a martini glass
• Garnish with third basil leaf and a slice of cucumber

Notes: The ginger-agave syrup was made by bringing water to boil then steeping few tablespoons of ginger in the hot water for about a half hour. I added about 1/2 cup of agave syrup to 1 cup of ginger water. There is a lot of room in this martini to adapt to your taste. Play with adding more lime or simple syrup. Too much lime, however, will overpower the cucumber. You might also serve this on the rocks with soda water.Cucumber Water
(Makes about 6-8 oz)

• Puree one large or two medium?cucumbers?in a food processor
• Pour into a fine sieve lined with cheese cloth and set in a bowl
• Cover with a plate
• Place in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight
• Pour collected water into a pretty bottle so it looks nice on the bar
• Keep refrigerated until use

Notes: Several recipes I found said to remove the peel and seeds while others did not. Your choice.?

Not-So-Bloody Mary

--6 oz gin??(Bulldog, Hendricks or similar)?

--8 oz tomato water (recipe below)

--1 oz lemon juice?
--1 oz lime juice

--2 tsp prepared horseradish

--6 dashes Worcestershire Sauce

--3-4 torn celery leaves

--Cayenne pepper to taste

--Salt to taste

--6 oz quality tonic water (see notes)

• In two batches shake tomato water, lemon and lime, horseradish, Worcestershire and torn celery leaves in a shaker with ice?
• Strain into a small pitcher
• Add gin
• Season with cayenne and salt to taste
• Divide among 6 glasses (3 ounces in each glass)
• Add ice
• Top with one ounce of tonic water (add more to taste if desired but note that it will overpower the tomato if you add too much)
• Garnish with a tomato slice and a pepper.

Notes: Q Tonic Water is the best I've had. It's all natural, made with agave and much less sweet than other tonics.

Tomato Water
(makes about 10-12 oz)

• Puree about 2 lbs of red tomatoes in a food processor.
• Pour into a fine sieve lined with cheese cloth (folded in 3-4 layers) and set in a bowl
• Cover with a plate
• Place in the refrigerator overnight
• Pour collected water into a pretty bottle so it looks nice on the bar
• Keep refrigerated until use

Notes: Do not squeeze the cheesecloth to get out more juice. This lovely water has all the flavor of the fresh tomato without the heaviness of tomato juice. ?
Ginger-Peach Smash
(Serves 1)
--2 oz bourbon
--.5 oz lemon
--3-4 peach slices
--4 tsp intense ginger syrup (recipe below)
--1 tsp simple syrup (or more to taste)
--2 oz soda Water

• In a shaker, muddle peaches with intense ginger syrup
• Add bourbon, lemon and simple syrup
• Shake with ice
• Strain through a tea strainer
• Garnish with a peach slice

Intense Ginger Syrup
-- 4 ounces ginger root (this is 1/4 of a lb, use the grocery store scale)
-- 3 cups water
-- 1/4 cup sugar (give or take, see notes)
-- Juice from half a lime
-- 2 small pieces of lime peel (no white)

• Heat the water in a non-reactive pot
• Peel the ginger, slice thinly cross-ways, then cut into matchstick-size pieces
• When the water is near boiling place 1/4 cup in a food processor with the ginger and process for 5-10 seconds
• Pour back into the pot, add lime
• Simmer for 1.5 hours partially covered
• Remove from heat and measure the liquid
• Return to warm burner and add sugar at a ratio of 4:1 (4 parts water, 1 part sugar, so if you have 1 cup of ginger water, add 1/4 cup of sugar)

Notes: I?started with Dale Degroff's recipe from the Essential Cocktail... Better to read his section on syrups and follow the recipe verbatim if you have the book, but I found a few things challenging so above is where I landed.

Cantaloupe-Chartreuse Popsicles
(Makes 9 pops)
--Cantaloupe (about 2 lbs)
--1/4 cup yellow chartreuse
--Squeeze of agave syrup

• Puree the cantaloupe in a food processor. You will need about 2 1/4 cups of puree. Stir in chartreuse and a small squeeze of agave.
• Use puree in a popsicle mold or maker.

Notes: I was lucky enough to borrow two?Zoku Quick Pop Makers?from a fellow gastronomer. Quite frankly, they are awesome. You can make 2-3 batches of three pops in each one in less than a half hour on your countertop. So, I went on to make a few watermelon-raspberry pops as well.

Basil-Watermelon Martini
--2.25 oz watermelon-infused gin (see notes)
--Juice from 1/2 lime
--Dash of simple sryup
--1 large cube of watermelon
--2-3 torn basil leaves

• Muddle watermelon and basil in a shaker
• Add gin, lime and simple syrup
• Shake and strain into a glass

Notes: I used Tanqueray that HA had infused with watermelon for a few days.

Food Recipes

Deviled Eggs
--1 dozen eggs
--6 tbs of mayo
--4 tbs sour cream
--Salt and pepper to taste
--Optional seasoning of choice (cumin, essence, coriander are all good choices)
--Various pickles for topping

• Boil the eggs by placing them in cold water and bringing the water to a simmer, then a boil. Let cook for 12-14 minutes
• In the meantime prepare an ice bath for the eggs in a large bowl
• For easier peeling, when the eggs are done, roll them on counter to crack the shells
  (careful they are hot) and then drop into the ice bath.
• Let sit in the ice bath for 15-20 minutes before peeling
• Peel eggs, slice lengthwise and remove the yolks into a bowl
• Mash the yolks with a fork
• Stir in mayo and sour cream
• Season to taste
• Spoon filling into each egg-white half and top with a small piece of pickle

Super Fresh Simple Summer Salad?

--1 small yellow summer squash

--1 large red tomato

--1 ear of corn

--1 kirby cucumber, peeled and seeded

--1 handful of basil leaves

--Olive or sesame oil (or a combo)

--Zest from half a lemon

--A good squeeze of lemon juice

--Salt to taste, pepper if desired

• Cut the corn off the cob and steam for few minutes, just until it loses a little hardness but still has some bite. Then put the corn into the freezer for a few minutes.?
• Chop all the other vegetables
• Mix in a bowl with oil, lemon zest and juice, salt and pepper.

HA's Watermelon Salad (courtesy of HA)

--1/2 of a watermelon

--1 cup St. Germain liqueur

--1 tbs light oil, such as sunflower

--A few sprigs of chopped mint

--Salt and pepper to taste

• Keeping the shell intact, remove and cube the melon
• Soak in St. Germain
• Add oil, mint, sea salt and pepper?
• Transfer the mixture back to the melon shell
• Let sit for at least an hour then freeze for one hour, serve immediately

Forbidden Rice Salad

Click here for the recipe from Whole Foods.

I used roasted carrot instead of sweet potato and added corn.?

Source: http://urbangastronomy.blogspot.com/2012/09/farm-to-bar-recipes-for-late-summer.html

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Hytera supplies wireless communications system to Greek trolley ...

Published on 3 Sep 2012

To Greeks, trolley bus is a major travel tool. Hytera supplied ILPAP, one of the most important trolley bus operators in Greek, with a robust wireless communications system, covering all the 23 routes run by ILPAP in Athens and Piraeus areas. The 23 trolley bus routes run by ILPAP cover more than 350km with 80 million annual passenger rides. To enhance operation efficiency and better serve passengers, a highly effective and uncompromising communications system is in urgent demand.

Thoroughly understanding the challenges faced by urban transport industry, Hytera proposed a tailored solution for the unique demands of ILPAP, and provided prototype of Hytera DMR mobile radio MD78XG to ILPAP for trial. Powered by superior performance and versatile functionalities, Hytera MD78XG greatly impressed the customers, especially for functions like GPS positioning, various voice calling, convenient dispatching and text messaging. By the end of April 2011, the initial 180 MD78XG mobile radios were delivered to ILPAP. These mobile radios have been proven to be well operated up to now. Moreover, the Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) application will be applied to the communications system later for better control and dispatching.

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Crackdown on free speech in birthplace of Arab Spring

By NBC News staff and wire reports

An international rights group called Monday for Tunisian prosecutors to drop charges against two sculptors for artworks deemed harmful to public order and good morals, a legal action seen as part of a clampdown on free speech in the country where the Arab Spring began.

Human Rights Watch said that the prosecution of artists Nadia Jelassi and Mohamed Ben Salem in Tunisia, the country whose protests against its longtime dictator helped set off similar uprisings across the Arab world, violated the right to freedom of expression because the works did not incite or discriminate.

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"Time and again, prosecutors are using criminal legislation to stifle critical or artistic expression," Eric Goldstein, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

"Bloggers, journalists and now artists are being prosecuted for exercising their right to free speech," he added.

Protests
The works by Jelassi and Ben Salem were exhibited in a show in La Marsa in June, according to Human Rights Watch. The two, whose mixed-media work provoked protests during the exhibition, face up to five years in prison if convicted, the rights group said.

La Marsa is a coastal town north of the capital Tunis.

Jelassi's contribution was a work titled "Celui qui n'a pas ?" ("He who hasn't ?"). It includes sculptures of veiled women amid a pile of stones. Ben Salem?s work showed ants coming out of a child's schoolbag to spell the word "Allah," or God, according to Human Rights Watch.

Mother of Tunisian fruit vendor who sparked Arab Spring is arrested

In addition to protests outside the center, several works of art in the exhibition reportedly were damaged.

The two artists were informed by the investigative judge of the First Degree Court of Tunis in August that they face charges, Human Rights Watch said.

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The article of the penal code under which the two artists were charged make it an offense to "distribute, offer for sale, publicly display, or possess, with the intent to distribute, sell, display for the purpose of propaganda, tracts, bulletins, and fliers, whether of foreign origin or not, that are liable to cause harm to the public order or public morals," according to Human Rights Watch.

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"Many Tunisians expected that repressive laws ... would not long outlast the dictator who adopted [them]," Goldstein of Human Rights Watch said.

Voice of Tunisian spring calls for justice, equality

"We now see that as long as the transitional government does not make it a priority to get rid of these laws, the temptation to use them to silence those who dissent or think differently is irresistible," he added.

More coverage of the Middle East and North Africa on NBCNews.com

Clampdown on freedom of expression
Amnesty International has also contended that freedom of expression has increasingly been under threat in Tunisia in recent months. A number of journalists, cinemas and TV stations have been fined, shut down or arrested, according to Amnesty.

Zohra Bensemra / Reuters

Click for more photos from the 2011 demonstrations against the Tunisian government.

The Arab Spring is widely considered to have begun in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, where a fruit seller's self-immolation triggered the popular uprisings against autocratic rule there and other countries in the region.

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The Tunisian uprising forced out dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. Elections that followed brought to power Ennahda, a moderate Islamist party that had been banned under Ben Ali?s rule.

NBC News' staff and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy ...

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Focusing carefully on specific strategies needed to replace specific fuels, the book then examines each practical energy option available to homeowners: ? Solar hot water, cooking, and water purification ? Space heat: passive and active solar retrofits ? Wood heat ? Passive cooling ? Solar electricity ? Wind-generated electricity ? Electricity from microhydropower sources ? Emerging technologies?hydrogen, fuel cells, methane digesters, and biodiesel The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Mother Earth News Wiser Living) The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy gives readers sufficient knowledge to hire and communicate effectively with contractors and, for those wanting do installations themselves, it recommends more detailed manuals. With a complete resource listing, this well-illustrated and accessible guide is a perfect companion for illuminating the coming dark age. Dan Chiras has studied renewable energy and energy efficiency for three decades and has installed several renewable energy systems. He lives in a self-designed passive solar/solar electric home. An award-winning author of over 20 books, he is a sustainability design consultant who teaches courses on renewable energy, green building, and sustainability at Colorado College. About the Author Dan Chiras is an internationally acclaimed author who has published over 24 books, including The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy. He is a certified wind site assessor and has installed several residential wind systems. Dan lives in a passive solar home in Evergreen, Colorado. The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Mother Earth News Wiser Living) More About the Author ? Visit Amazon?s Daniel D. Chiras Page Daniel D. Chiras Biography Dan Chiras paid his last electric bill in June of 1996. It is not that he has disavowed the use of electricity and modern conveniences, but rather that he has turned to the sun and wind to meet his family?s needs. In 1995, Dan, a former full-time college professor with years of experience in sustainable development, built a state-of-the-art rammed earth tire and straw bale home in Evergreen, Colorado. He installed solar electric panels on the roof; a year or so later he installed a small wind generator. Since that time, he has met nearly all of his electrical needs for his home and office from these clean, renewable sources. Dan also heats his home in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains 8000-feet above sea level with energy from the sun thanks to passive solar design. For backup heat on those cold winter nights, he burns a cord of wood a year, gathered free from his community. His annual gas bill, mostly for showers and cooking, runs about $120 a year ? about $2 to $3 per month for natural gas and $10 per month to read the meter! Dan has spent much of the past 30 years studying sustainability and applying what he has learned in solar energy, natural building, and green building to his residences, and most of the last ten years sharing the practical knowledge he has gained through writing, lectures, slide shows, and workshops. Dan has published 21 books to date including several college and high school textbooks: Environmental Science: Creating a Sustainable Future, Natural Resource Conservation, Human Biology, and Biology: The Web of Life. His high school environmental science text, Environmental Science, was selected as the official book of the U.S. Academic Decathlon?s 1991 competition. In the early 1990s, Dan published two trade books on environmental issues and sustainability for a general audience: Beyond the Fray: Reshaping America?s Response and Lessons from Nature: Learning to Live Sustainably on the Earth. Since 1995, Dan has focused most of his attention on residential green building. He has written extensively on the subject. His is books include: The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy Efficient, Environmental Homes; The Natural Plaster Book; The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling; Superbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Suburbs; and The New Ecological Home. His newest book, EcoKids: Raising Kids Who Care for the Earth will be published in the Spring of 2005 by New Society Publishers. Dan also writes extensively for magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers. He has published nearly 250 articles on environmental issues, sustainability, natural building, natural plaster, green building, and passive solar heating and cooling. His articles appear regularly in Home Power, Mother Earth News, Natural Home, and The Last Straw. The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Mother Earth News Wiser Living) Dan also writes frequently for World Book Encyclopedia (Science Year) and Encyclopedia Americana. He authored a 12-page article on the environment for Encyclopedia Americana. Dan has written environmental pollution section for World Book Encyclopedia?s annual publication, Science Year, since 1993. In 1997, he wrote an extensive piece for World Book on population growth and its many implications. Dan also wrote the ecology and air pollution sections for Encyclopedia Americana. In addition to his writing, Dan has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado in Denver and the University of Colorado at Denver. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Washington, where he taught a course on environmental science. He currently is a Melon Visiting Professor at Colorado College where he teaches courses on renewable energy, ecological design, and sustainable development. The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Mother Earth News Wiser Living) Through his writing and teaching in the 1980s and early 1990s, Dan played a leading role in promoting critical thinking, an understanding of the root causes of environmental issues, systemic solutions to environmental problems, sustainable development. He pioneered a systems approach to sustainable development and has played a lead role in articulating the principles, policies, and practices of sustainable development which seeks ways that business and society can prosper within a healthy environment. He is currently focusing most of his research and writing on sustainable building and sustainable communities. Dan?s free time is spent mountain biking, canoeing, playing music, and gardening. For more information visit danchiras.com. The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Mother Earth News Wiser Living) Product Review: This is a great introduction to essentially all the renewable energy resources available. Chiras takes a sensible, realistic look at a number of options for both reducing your dependence on fossil fuels as well as saving money. He talks about which solutions work best in which climates and gives tips on where to begin wading into renewable energy. The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Mother Earth News Wiser Living) I originally bought the book as a resource to help us select which renewable energy options were viable in our new home design. It served that purpose well but I will also keep it handy as we move forward as Chiras goes beyond the typical introduction and gives planning suggestions and some detailed discussions on sizing and maintenance of a few systems. Note that this book is targeted at home owners wishing to retrofit their EXISTING homes for renewable energy. Repeatedly throughout the book, Chiras recommended his book "The Solar House" for those of us designing new homes. I plan to read that book before building but still found a lot of useful information in this book. The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Mother Earth News Wiser Living) Product Review. I read this book cover-to-cover over the course of a couple of weeks. I?m new to the field of renewable energy, so you?ll have to take my criticisms for what they are, a critique of the writing: 1) The author frequently repeats himself, and sometimes goes so far to state that he is repeating himself, and that the reader should refer back to a previous section. 2) Many of the references are "so and so claims such and such" or references to the Home Power magazine. It?s great that the author cites his sources, but it often left me wondering if the author placed any stock in the claim being reported. 3) The author frequently refers to his own house, which was designed from the ground up to use renewable energy. While this is neat, it doesn?t seem applicable to readers who already own houses (with a 99% chance that they?re not nearly as efficient, and that it?s not possible to convert them). 4) I would have enjoyed more information on solar power, since it seems to be the most applicable in urban and suburban areas. Instead, it received basically equal treatment alongside micro-hydroelectric and wind power. The Homeowner?s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower (Mother Earth News Wiser Living)

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How to Make Your Readers Pass on Your Viral E-book | Internet ...

Producing a viral e-book can be the most important aspect to determine your business? success. Most people consider it the number one internet marketing strategy at the present time. ?Most businesses, especially online, have adopted this technique and used it to their advantage.

A viral e-book is a book that can be downloaded over the internet and most of the time, free. This e-book is also one that can be freely given away by readers after they have finished reading it. It is termed viral because of the fact that people would be willing to give it away to others for the benefit of the author.

What would make readers give it away?

As a consumer, what makes you recommend a product or suggest a service to your friends or relatives? Or what makes you do otherwise?

When you buy a product or use the service of a certain shop or establishment and are happy with your experience as a customer, you are most likely to tell your friends and relatives about it. People have this instinct to share what made them happy and feel good for others to experience the same thing.

Likewise, if you are dissatisfied with something, you will also tell others about the bad experience to warn them. This attitude of consumers is well-known to marketers and uses it to their advantage. And this is basically how viral marketing and your viral e-book works.

If your e-book is something that is really interesting and contains several information a person can benefit from, there is a high probability that the reader will pass it on to others who he thinks will be interested as well. It is similar to chain emails that contain jokes and funny stories that are continuously being passed around over the internet.

Another thing that will make your readers pass the e-book to others, and perhaps the most effective, is through affiliate links. If you make your reader be someone like a business affiliate, that would encourage him more to pass it on because he knows he will also benefit from it.

Let?s say you go into a membership shop and buys something. When you are already in the check-out counter, the saleslady tells you that if you bring in a friend next time who also becomes a member, you will receive $50 gift certificate. Wow! That will surely encourage you to invite someone to become a member, wouldn?t it?

The same concept can be applied in your e-book to make it more ?viral.? You can give rights to the readers to include their affiliate IDs in your link. That would mean more sales to you because these people would register under you as an affiliate, at the same time make them earn with the affiliate commissions of your program.

However, there are things to be considered to make sure that you still have some control of those links that will be modified. There might be others who may place a totally different link which is not in any way related to your e-book. That will just ruin the process.

You should put clear instructions as to how these people can distribute your e-book with their affiliate links in it. There should also be an agreement in black and white to prevent some legal issues that may arise.

Also, make sure to control the amount of links in your e-book. Something that looks like a compilation of tons of affiliate links will discourage readers in proceeding with your e-book. It is also best to place the links in such a way that is not too obvious to the eyes of the readers. Try to sneak them in a clean way within the statements of your e-book.

Always remember, when you are trying to produce your e-book, your main goal is for it to reach the most number of potential customers in a short time and with a little effort on your part. So make use of your readers to help you achieve this goal. Utilize them wisely and give fair rewards to better entice them in passing your e-book on to others. Anyways, this is one of the principles of viral marketing.

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Chocolate: A sweet method for stroke prevention in men?

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Eating a moderate amount of chocolate each week may be associated with a lower risk of stroke in men, according to a new study published in the August 29, 2012, online issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

"While other studies have looked at how chocolate may help cardiovascular health, this is the first of its kind study to find that chocolate, may be beneficial for reducing stroke in men," said study author Susanna C. Larsson, PhD, with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

For the study, 37,103 Swedish men ages 49 to 75 were given a food questionnaire that assessed how often they consumed various foods and drinks and were asked how often they had chocolate. Researchers then identified stroke cases through a hospital discharge registry. Over 10 years, there were 1,995 cases of first stroke.

Men in the study who ate the largest amount of chocolate, about one-third of a cup of chocolate chips (63 grams), had a lower risk of stroke compared to those who did not consume any chocolate. Those eating the highest amount of chocolate had a 17-percent lower risk of stroke, or 12 fewer strokes per 100,000 person-years compared to those who ate no chocolate. Person-years is the total number of years that each participant was under observation.

In a larger analysis of five studies that included 4,260 stroke cases, the risk of stroke for individuals in the highest category of chocolate consumption was 19 percent lower compared to non-chocolate consumers. For every increase in chocolate consumption of 50 grams per week, or about a quarter cup of chocolate chips, the risk of stroke decreased by about 14 percent.

"The beneficial effect of chocolate consumption on stroke may be related to the flavonoids in chocolate. Flavonoids appear to be protective against cardiovascular disease through antioxidant, anti-clotting and anti-inflammatory properties. It's also possible that flavonoids in chocolate may decrease blood concentrations of bad cholesterol and reduce blood pressure," said Larsson.

"Interestingly, dark chocolate has previously been associated with heart health benefits, but about 90 percent of the chocolate intake in Sweden, including what was consumed during our study, is milk chocolate," Larsson added.

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Mix-Up Or Must-Buy Phone? Motorola May Reveal Smartphone With Edge-To-Edge Screen Next Week

Motorola is dead-set on showing off some new hardware at its New York press event next week, but could it have more up its sleeve than we all expected? A handful of leaks (accidental and otherwise) have already outed the Droid RAZR M and the long-awaited RAZR HD, but Bloomberg seems to have confirmed the existence of another new Motorola handset whose description doesn?t seem to match up with anything I've seen recently.

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