Chocolate is good for you!

Good news for chocolate! Chocolate is good for you. In certain circumstances.

Katherine Tallmadge, spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, says that in the 9th February 2005, Washington Post, that "cocoa beans, cocoa or contain 'flavanols,' naturally plant compounds found in tea, red wine and apples. Their properties are been studied as inhibitors of heart disease. "

Carl L. Keen, chairman of the Department of Nutrition, University ofCalifornia, Davis called in the same article that "cocoa flavanols to maintain a healthy vascular system to reduce the formation of blood clots -. -. Due to aspirin reduces oxidative damage and improve blood circulation"

Unfortunately the flavanols in chocolate are bitter and are mostly removed from processed chocolate. The volume decreases at every step from bean to cocoa powder, and finally to a finished product. But big manufacturers like Nestle and Mars Inc. (producerswhat else - from M & Ms) on chocolate items that work? - Good for you. We can soon expect chocolate bars and candies that advertise their high level of flavanols. Meanwhile, the only product that states its flavanol dark chocolate Dove at Mars' has 150 mg. At 1.3 ounces, a high level. It also has 200 calories. We live in an imperfect world.

Waiting for more high-flavanol products on Ms. Tallmadge recommends unsweetened cocoa powder, butnot alkalized "Dutch processed" kind, which had its flavanols reduced. Next in desirability is the dark chocolate or dark chocolate with high cocoa content. Some chocolates contain as much as 70 percent cocoa, but may have a minimum of 35 percent. The percentage of cocoa in milk chocolate may even lower, and is not recommended. She says, "I recommend cocoa or a gram a day of dark chocolate, about 110-150 calories, may be depending on each chocolate.more than that and you're probably taking in too many calories for weight control. "

You have no idea what you just read? A qualified nutrition professional is advised to eat chocolate! Maybe not a large amount of chocolate, but chocolate. If you have suffered a lot in terms of chocolate, you can enlarge that statement and on your bathroom mirror, where rooting for you morning rain.

Now the chocolate glaze is theCake. Deanna K. reports: "The teacher told me CARBOLITE diabetic, another type of oz 1.1 With Low-carb. Chocolate Bar made with Splenda with sugar 0 carbs, 18g carbohydrate, 15 depending on your taste information to Google. " Carbolite "for."

Deanna continues, "The other chocolate bar that is acceptable is Amber Lyn Chocolates I (well-established Belgian chocolate), sugar and carbohydrates such as conscious. A little 'more caloriesCarbolite, the 1.2 oz bar has 15-16g of carbohydrates. Http://www.amberlynchocolates.com For more nutrition information. "Dark chocolate has 157 calories.

Flavanols are not listed, but these dark chocolates are a good bet for a piece of chocolate healthy is your duty to eat regularly. And soon, no doubt, the manufacturer begin to formulate their candies to be high in flavanols - and say it.