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Holiday Dieting: A Sweet Way To CheatLaura Turner If your diet is making you a humbug this season, there’s some good news. Turns out dark chocolate, that decadent confection, may actually be good for you! Yes, recently conducted studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition have shown that a dose of dark chocolate will heed all sorts of healthy results. And with holiday-time upon us, this news couldn’t have come at a better time. So just for fun, I thought I’d conduct a mini-research project of my own and get the “skinny” on our friend dark chocolate. Here’s some of the interesting factoids I came up with:
So, if you are looking for a healthy way to “cheat” this holiday season, dark chocolate may not be all together a bad option. Facts aside, however, and before you run out to fill your shopping cart full, keep these guidelines in mind:
If you’d like to skip the treat but not the fun, send a virtual chocolate postcard from this fun chocolate website no calories included : http://www.virtualchocolate.com/index.cfm To summarize my findings; it appears that dark chocolate is in fact our friend and we will just leave its aphrodisiac qualities to your own private discussion groups, thanks. As for the cravings... Well, do we really need chocolate Survey says: Dunno. But, with the holidays upon us, a Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate once in a while—now available in the *sugar free” variety, mind you--sounds sweet enough to me. Research Ref: Eat To Beat Cancer, Hatherill. 1998 St. Martins Press, New York
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