Ummm.... A Chocolate Newsletter from Cool Green Planet Chiropractic Cafe... A Healthy Spine Place

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 13, 2011 -- With Valentine's Day Coming Up Soon... read below for some interesting tidbits about beloved chocolate

Health Benefits of Chocolate - Why Dark is Chocolate Healthy:

Did you know? Chocolate is made from plants, which means it contains many of the health benefits of dark vegetables. Chocolate and dark vegetables have something unique in common: PLANT ANTIOXIDANTS.

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Antioxidants are like scavengers which travel around the body and protect it from free radicals (free radical damage can be compared on a simple scale to electrical static that shocks the cells).

Dark chocolate contains nearly 8 times the number of antioxidant levels than what is found in strawberries! Flavonoids in dark chocolate also produce nitric oxide which relax blood vessel walls.

Heart Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate:
Dark chocolate is good for your heart. A small bar of it everyday can help keep your heart and cardiovascular system running well. It lowers blood pressure and it lower cholesterol (by up to 10%).

Other Benefits of Dark Chocolate:
it stimulates endorphin production, which gives a feeling of pleasure

it contains serotonin, which acts as an anti-depressant

Doesn't Chocolate Have a lot of Fat?
More good news - some of the fats in chocolate do not impact your cholesterol.

The fats in chocolate are 1/3 oleic acid, 1/3 stearic acid and 1/3 palmitic acid:
v Oleic Acid is a healthy monounsaturated fat that is also found in olive oil.
v Stearic Acid is a saturated fat but one which research is shows has a neutral effect on cholesterol.
v Palmitic Acid is also a saturated fat, one which raises cholesterol and heart disease risk (this is one drawback).

That means only 1/3 of the fat in dark chocolate is bad for you.

Chocolate Tip 1 - Balance the Calories:
This information doesn't mean that you should eat a pound of chocolate a day. Chocolate is still a high-calorie, high-fat food.

Limit your daily intake to no more than 100 grams, or about 3.5 ounces, of dark chocolate a day.

One bar of dark chocolate has around 400 calories. If you eat half a bar of chocolate a day, you must balance those 200 calories by eating less of something else. Cut out other sweets or snacks and replace them with dark chocolate to keep your total calories the same.

Chocolate Tip 2 - Taste the Chocolate:
Chocolate is a complex food with over 300 compounds and chemicals in each bite. To really enjoy and appreciate chocolate, take the t-i-m-e to taste it!

Professional chocolate tasters have developed a system for tasting chocolate that includes appearance, smell, feel and taste of each piece.

Chocolate Tip 3 - Go for Dark Chocolate (at least 70%)
Dark chocolate has far more antioxidants than milk or white chocolate. These other two chocolates cannot make any health claims. Dark chocolate has 65 percent or higher cocoa content.

Chocolate Tip 4 - Skip the Nougat:

You should look for pure dark chocolate or dark chocolate with nuts or orange peel. Avoid anything with caramel, nougat or other fillings. These fillings are just adding sugar and fat which erase many of the benefits you get from eating the chocolate.

Chocolate Tip 5 - Avoid Drinking Milk with Your Chocolate:

It may taste good but some research shows that washing your chocolate down with a glass of milk could prevent the antioxidants being absorbed or used by your body.

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