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A new study found that dieters can have their cake and eat it, too - as long as the cake comes at breakfast time. Sounds too good to be true, right? Read on!
EH editors just munching away on some raw cacao!
Full of disease-fighting antioxidants, chocolate is now considered a super food with potential health benefits. But through the ages, it’s been linked to love and romance thanks to its effect on neurotransmitters and endorphins (the “feel good” chemicals) in the brain. When indulging, try to choose dark chocolate with at least 60 percent cacao — the more cacao the better, since this is probably the source of chocolate’s health benefits.
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International researchers have uncovered even more healthy properties of flavanols — the antioxidants found in cocoa beans.
Eighteen chocolate-centered studies — including investigations of how cocoa might affect blood pressure, heart disease, painful nerve disorders and cancer risk — were to be presented Wednesday at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting in San Diego.
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