IT'S CHOCOLATE MONTH


Thursday, May 26, 2016

Chocolate's not healthy at all

 Chocolate often gets a bad rep for being bad for you. "It's full of caffeine and sugar". "It will make you sick if you eat to much". These and more are the most common complaints about chocolate. People turn a blind eye to the good things about chocolate though. It's not this evil temptation treat
 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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