Posts Tagged ‘chocolate’

An Easy Way to Reduce Your Sweet Tooth

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

An Easy Way to Reduce Your Sweet ToothChocolate tastes too good and a lot of us have the infamous sweet tooth. But chocolate is very high in sugar, calories and fat. So here comes some health news that offers nutrition advice, mixed with exercise advice. Here is how to cut your chocolate consumption in half.

Researchers found that simply walking for 15 minutes can cut snacking on chocolate at work by half. The study showed that, even in stressful situations, workers eat only half as much chocolate as they normally would after this short burst of physical activity. If you are a … Read More

Evidence Confirms This Treat Helps Protect Your Heart

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Healing foods come no sweeter than this one: chocolate. It’s been long thought and shown that dark chocolate in particular helps shield the heart from disease. A new study found some amazing proof that didn’t even differentiate between dark, milk, white and other chocolate. In short, chocolate as a food cure will provide some protection from heart disease.

The new study, in the prestigious “British Medical Journal,” found that eating high levels of chocolate is linked with a one-third reduction in heart disease risk. The findings confirm results of existing studies that generally agree on … Read More