Seven benefits of masticating Dark Chocolate

[N2NH]

The health benefits of dark chocolate seem to outweigh the bad effects. Here are seven good reasons to eat chocolate as long as it's dark chocolate...

...if you aren't eating it consistently, you could be missing out on some of the most amazing health benefits of dark chocolate you never knew about, writes Will Clower, PhD, author of the new book Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight. "Given the fact that healthy cultures eat chocolate all the time and research has yet to show anything but confirmatory evidence about the health effects of high-cocoa chocolate," he says, "it seems logical that you should eat chocolate every day, like a delicious vitamin."

Of course, you have to eat the right chocolate--the candy bars in the grocery store checkout lane aren't going to cut it. You'll reap the greatest health benefits of dark chocolate with products that have 70 percent, or higher, cocoa levels.

So what are those great benefits? Aside from chocolate's reputation as an aphrodisiac and a momentary mood-booster, here are seven legitimate reasons you should be eating it every day.

Lindt works for me.

7 (legitimate!) health benefits of dark chocolate

[K7SGJ]

And here I thought masticating was frowned upon. Who Gnu?

[NQ6U]

And here I thought masticating was frowned upon. Who Gnu?

Mormons do frown upon mastication.

[n0iu]

#8 ) I tastes gud!

[kb2vxa]

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[n2ize]

I think they mean relatively pure unsweetened dark cocoa. The extremely bitter stuff. Not the stuff that we are used to which is loaded with sugar or corn syrup and is a ticket to diabetes land.

[kb2vxa]

If you read the article you wouldn't think, you would know. I have a few thoughts on certain Islanders' thinking, but I'll keep them to myself. (;->)

[KB3LAZ]

Yuck, rancid roadkill tastes better than dark chocolate.

[n2ize]

If you read the article you wouldn't think, you would know. I have a few thoughts on certain Islanders' thinking, but I'll keep them to myself. (;->)

Yes, I did read it. Dark chocolate that is at least 70% pure cocoa. But most chocolate comes in many forms and often the remaining 30% is sugar in order to make the chocolate palatable which can be a problem for diabetics or people with a tendency towards diabetes. Of course there is non-sugar sweetener but that stuff taste like crap and strong unsweetened cocoa also tastes like crap. I suppose one could get used to it. I got used to drinking strong unsweeetened coffee and nowadays I prefer coffee without sugar or sweeteners. But cocoa is just nasty bitter. Lastly I wouldn't take the health claims made in the article seriously unless I read some reputable peer reviewed medical research supporting the claims. All to often the Internetz gets it wrong. ;) Yeah, I know, it was taken from a book written by a guy with Ph.D at the end of his name but that doesn't make him correct either. Plenty of people with lots of letters after their name get it wrong too.

[N2NH]

Of course, you have to eat the right chocolate--the candy bars in the grocery store checkout lane aren't going to cut it. You'll reap the greatest health benefits of dark chocolate with products that have 70 percent, or higher, cocoa levels.

That depends of course. This works:



...and they also have 85% and 90% Dark Chocolate bars too. Works for me anyway.