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Dark chocolate benefits your body as well as your emotionsThe news that every red-blooded woman in America has been waiting for is finally here— dark chocolate has actual health benefits for your body, in addition to the well-known soothing effect on your emotions. This information was found accidentally, when 139 participants in a study at Johns Hopkins University were kicked out of the study for eating chocolate, which had been a forbidden food during the course of the study. Then someone thought to test the 139…and they found that chocolate had a biochemical effect similar to aspirin that reduces the clumping of platelets, which cause blood to clot. (Platelet clumping can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, causing a heart attack.) All EnergyFirst Whey Protein Powders are completely WHEAT AND GLUTEN FREE - Click Here Gerry Morton, CEO of EnergyFirst, recommends that you take the following steps to make the shift from roasted nuts to healthier raw nuts and seeds: So in addition to chocolate’s well-known benefits to the soul, dark chocolate actually functions as a mild anti-blotting agent. However, the benefits are limited to very dark, minimally-processed chocolate. Milk chocolate doesn’t contain enough cocoa to be useful, and white chocolate is actually a misnomer because it contains no cocoa. Gerry Morton, CEO of EnergyFirst, has these suggestions for using chocolate:
But not everyone agrees that chocolate is the next health food. In a recent study, U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers, supported by an industry group called the America Cocoa Research Institute, found that standard cocoa powders had the greatest concentrations of certain flavanols and of antioxidants overall among chocolate products. Baking chocolate was close behind. Dark chocolate and baking chips, as well as cocoa powders that had been treated by a method called Dutch processing, contained fewer potentially beneficial compounds. Milk chocolate -- the most widely available type for retail sale, and the top pick of many consumers-- contained the fewest, about 10 percent of what's in top cocoa powders. In a recent Washington Post story, Lalita Kaul, a nutritionist at Howard University Medical School and a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, says that chocolate "is a pleasure food with reduced risks" compared to many other common choices. But for chocolate lovers, it really doesn’t matter if their favorite snack is good for you or merely a “reduced risk” food—they love it anyway. More tips on how you can get healthier by eating the right foods can be found by visiting EnergyFirst Edge. Gerry Morton, CEO of EnergyFirst, holds an MS in Nutrition and is an experienced athlete who has competed in 30+ marathons and 4 Ironman triathlons. Gerry is an excellent source of information on nutrition, supplementation and exercise. Since 1997, he has been educating and motivating others on how to attain peak performance.  |
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