Chocolate with high cocoa content as a weight-loss accelerator

International Archives of Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bohannon, Johannes ^a   Koch, Diana ^a   Homm, Peter ^a   Driehaus, Alexander ^a  

^a Institute of Diet and Health   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; KETONE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CACAO; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SLEEP QUALITY; TEST STRIP; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; WAIST HIP RATIO; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WELLBEING;

EID: 84929470018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17557682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3823/1654     Document Type: Article

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