that people make it out to be. Especially dark chocolate. Sure, it's not as nutritious as an apple, but it has its advantages too! Dark chocolate, for example, has many antioxidants like Flavonol. In fact, your average dark chocolate bar has the same amount of antioxidants as 2/3 cups of blueberries! 10% of a good quality bar of dark chocolate is fiber. Eating it also stimulates the production of Nitric Oxide in your body, which serves in part to "send signals to the arteries to relax, which lowers resistance to blood flow and therefore reduces blood pressure" (www.authoritynutrition.com).
IT'S CHOCOLATE MONTH
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Chocolate's not healthy at all
that people make it out to be. Especially dark chocolate. Sure, it's not as nutritious as an apple, but it has its advantages too! Dark chocolate, for example, has many antioxidants like Flavonol. In fact, your average dark chocolate bar has the same amount of antioxidants as 2/3 cups of blueberries! 10% of a good quality bar of dark chocolate is fiber. Eating it also stimulates the production of Nitric Oxide in your body, which serves in part to "send signals to the arteries to relax, which lowers resistance to blood flow and therefore reduces blood pressure" (www.authoritynutrition.com).
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