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Gluten Free Chocolate Mousse Cake with Cardamom

I love Chocolate .   It’s sinfully delicious but also one of our most potent health foods.  Have you heard the story of how we figured out dark chocolate was so incredibly healthy? In the late 90’s researchers wondered why an island off the coast of Panama had so little heart disease (while Panama itself had lots of heart disease). They went to the island to find out and discovered that people there were drinking many cups of a beverage made out of the cacao plant. ( Cacao  is what is used to make chocolate.) They brought samples home to study and discovered that Cacao  was extremely high in flavanols and antioxidants, which protect against heart disease. Since then countless scientific studies have been conducted on cacao and chocolate and have shown that cacao can dramatically support heart health, improve athletic performance and can even slow dementia. Just to name a few! “ Study after study shows that cocoa flavanols can dis...