What is cacao doing to me?
Does anyone else feel crazy after eating raw cacao? My heart beats my whole body...I call it the cacao drum. I don't want to stop as I am feeling so warm and nourished on this stuff as well, especially at 'that time of month' when I probably have too much in order to quell cravings for bad carbohydrates. The side affects are possibly a kind of anxity, I feel like I'm off to war. grrrrrrrrr....anyone else have cacao side affects?
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Permalink Reply by Raw'r on -
...it's called caffein doll, and it's not good for you. Coupled if you are sweetening it with agave the effects are worse. Save the chocolate for special treats not "food"
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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on -
When I eat raw honey or very strong green tea(caffeine content) I do not feel that way. But doing cacao powder I felt like my organs were shutting down.
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Permalink Reply by Beck on
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yeah, i get it really badly. if i have a piece of raw chocolate i cant sleep that night, and i start sweating and get very anxious after a while. brrr....no, o've switched to carob
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Permalink Reply by Vana on
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I don't feel good on cacao, at first I got a really energetic warm feeling then after a while it just made me feel tearful and 'speedy'.
Jinjee from www.thegardendiet.com posted this pearl of wisdom :
Blogdate 8/31/08
In to every great movement some drug seems to enter in to the picture to disempower the participants. The drug of choice in the raw food movement seems to be raw cacao. Highly addictive, with an endless shelf-life, often made in to packaged treats that include clogging coconut butters and lethal lecithin, I have personally noticed that when I eat cacao, I start to look depleted very quickly.
20 Ways to tell if you are addicted to raw cacao:
1. You have raw cacao every day, sometimes more than once.
2. You blog and twitter about raw cacao daily.
3. You think you aren't addicted but you can't stop eating it because it gives you energy.
4. On days when you don't have raw cacao, you feel tired and lethargic.
5. On days when you don't have raw cacao, you feel foggy-brained.
6. You eat more and more raw cacao all the time.
7. After eating raw cacao you experience heart palpitations, increased heart rate or a pounding heart, and continue to eat it.
8. You can't sleep at night when you've eaten raw cacao that day.
9. You stay awake on raw cacao all night more than once a week.
10. You stay awake on raw cacao two or more nights in a row.
11. You feel dizzy after eating raw cacao, but continue to eat it.
12. You get migraine headaches from raw cacao, but continue to eat it.
13. You will leave your house just to buy raw cacao.
14. You eat raw cacao regularly and are gaining weight in tummy region for no good reason.
15. You eat raw cacao regularly and have lost interest in greens.
16. You kick raw cacao and then feel like its OK to eat it again.
17. You eat more than two tablespoons of raw cacao at one sitting.
18. You look depleted after eating raw cacao, and continue to eat it.
19. Your emotions become topsy turvy when you eat raw cacao, but you don't stop.
20. You realize raw cacao is bad for your body, but feel that you should be allowed one addiction, if its raw
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Permalink Reply by Saz on -
"In to every great movement some drug seems to enter in to the picture to disempower the participants. The drug of choice in the raw food movement seems to be raw cacao."
*Lol* - So is Jinjie suggesting that David Wolfe is like the raw-food drug pusher?
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Oh and I second Rebecka Askaner - switching to carob is great.
So for example instead of cacao shakes/smoothies I make them with carob and they taste like malt shakes yummy.
(Cherry Malts are my fave!)
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Permalink Reply by Rawstrength on -
Yes, carob does have a very delicious, malty flavor.
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Permalink Reply by WhoRaw on -
Hi Rawstrength
What do you mix with the carob? When I use it it doesn't really taste good. The other morning, i mixed coconut water, spinach, carob, spirulina, msm and bananas. It tasted like it had too many different flavors. KWIM???
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Permalink Reply by Mizpah on -
I suggest a shake made with bananas, dates and carob. You can add some spinach if you like. The extra sweetness from the dates actually enhances the flavor of the carob.
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Permalink Reply by Rawstrength on
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Caco is a stimulant. It doesn't contain caffeine, but theobromine, a similar stimulant to caffeine that acts mainly on the heart. That doesn't mean that it is necessarily bad but it is what it is.
Heart stimulants are useful for delivering medicine to all parts of your body by increasing blood circulation. If you make a medicinal herbal tea and add in some cacao, the medicine will reach all parts of your body much more quickly and thoroughly.
Don't use cacao every day, or it could wipe out your adrenals. Know its effects and use it intelligently. Don't become addicted to it or use it to give you an "wake up" like coffee every mornig.
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