Chocolate is GOOD For You

Many people think that chocolate is bad for you; it makes you fat, gives you pimples, damage your joints. But what people do not know, are the benefits of eating chocolate. Take my father for instance, a perfectly healthy fifty-eight-year-old who has been eating chocolate his whole life!

According to Dirk Taubert, PhD, dark chocolate can help lower blood pressure if you've reached a certain age and have mild high blood pressure. It is also a healthy antioxidant which gobble up free radicals, nasty molecules that can be the source for heart disease and other ailments. Mary Engler, PhD, even says that eating a small 1.6 ounce bar of dark chocolate EVERY DAY is good for you! She gives credit to the flavoniods in dark chocolate that keep cholesterol from gathering in blood vessels, reduce the risk of blood clots, and slow down the immune responses that lead to clogged arteries. Today, chocolate companies have now learned to make dark chocolate that keeps up to 95% of its flavoniods! Engler also added that you cannot really get these flavoniods that you need from other foods. Chocolate, which most people do not realize, is plant derived, and needed for a healthy and balanced life.

Of course, all of these healthy findings come from chocolate in moderation. But that certainly means next time you are craving that little piece of chocolate, go for it!