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How Dark Chocolate Benefits Your Health

Author:Sarita Haines

There are significant health benefits to dark chocolate.  According to research studies, chocolate provides clues to fighting disease.  Your health and well-being can be enhanced while you savor and enjoy chocolate.   Below, you’ll see how research involving chocolate consumption can help conditions such as high cholesterol, heart disease and high blood pressure.

Chocolate and Cancer

The same antioxidants found in wine and green tea are found in raw cacao and dark chocolate.  Antioxidants protect cells from toxins, slow the growth of cancer cells, and help reduce cancer risks and heart disease.   The greater the amount of cacao contained in chocolate, the more antioxidants it has.  (Note: White chocolate does not contain antioxidants, so look for dark chocolate instead).

Chocolate and Cholesterol

While many foods high in saturated fats are known to raise cholesterol levels, studies have shown that chocolate consumption does not.  This is due to the type of saturated fat  chocolate contains.   Less harmful saturated fat in one’s diet means plaque that can gather in the arteries.  In fact, studies have shown that dark chocolate may in fact boost good cholesterol.

Chocolate and Depression

The fat naturally found in chocolate helps provide a feeling of enjoyment and satisfaction, releasing mood-enhancing endorphins.  Chocolate also may help relieve symptoms of anxiety.  It  is thought to have an opiate effect  that may help improve mood.  A study conducted on patients who were depressed showed that the dark chocolate provided relief from their symptoms.

Chocolate and Circulation

Since the chemicals in dark chocolate help prevent the formation blood platelets, the chance of blood clots is minimized.  In addition, blood pressure may be lowered with a regular consumption of dark chocolate each day.   This is a result of the flavonoids present in cacao that help with circulation.  Keep in mind that flavonoids are lower in milk chocolate than dark chocolate. 

How Much Chocolate Can You Have?

Include 1 ounce of dark chocolate per day to your diet.  Select your chocolate carefully, ensuring that there are no refined sugars or hydrogenated oils, which have undesirable health effects.  Also, look for  a high percentage of cacao (70% or above).  Remember that chocolate does have calories, so make necessary modifications to your calorie intake.

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• 6 tablespoonfuls of butter,
• 1/3 cup of sugar (scant),
• 1 egg,
• 1 tablespoonful of milk,
• 1 teaspoonful of vanilla or pinch of cinnamon,
• 5 teaspoonfuls of Baker's Cocoa,
• 1/8 teaspoonful of baking powder,
• 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups of sifted pastry flour.

Cream the butter until soft; add the sugar gradually and beat well; add the beaten egg, milk and vanilla; mix thoroughly. Sift cocoa, baking powder, and a pinch of salt with about one-half cup of the flour; stir this into the mixture first, then use the remainder of the flour, and more if necessary, to make a firm dough that will not stick to the fingers. Set on the ice to harden. Sprinkle the board with cocoa and a very little sugar. Use small pieces of the dough at a time, toss it over the board to prevent sticking, roll out thin, cut in strips about one-half inch wide and three inches long. Place closely in pan and bake in moderately hot oven three or four minutes. Great care should be taken in the baking to prevent burning.

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