Chocolate is my kryptonite\u2026well, I have to stop thinking about it as kryptonite. No one is about to give me license to carry a feed bag of M&Ms around my neck, but I\u2019ve read lately that a little dark decadence won\u2019t wreck my figure. In fact, it may actually keep me slim.<\/p>\n
The few extra calories are a more than fair trade-off for reduced heart disease risk and better glucose and blood pressure control, and the antioxidants in cocoa lower bad-LDL cholesterol levels, prevent blood clots and inflammation, and improve insulin resistance. On only that, but I read that people who report eating chocolate are thinner than their more restrained counterparts. Even sweeter than that, people who enjoy daily doses of chocolate experience a slight drop in blood pressure compared to others. How can something so dangerously delicious be healthy? Well, flavanols contribute to nitric acid formation, which relaxes blood vessel walls.<\/p>\n
Naysayers, I get it\u2026what about all the sugar and fat? Fair question. Turns out the two negatives sort of make a positive: when you eat sugar without fat, the rapid blood sugar rise is much more harmful. And cocoa fats are largely stearic and oleic acid, fortunately.<\/p>\n
Kryptonite? More like nutritional diamonds. Now that\u2019s good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chocolate is my kryptonite\u2026well, I have to stop thinking about it as kryptonite. No one is about to give me license to carry a feed bag of M&Ms around my neck, but I\u2019ve read lately that a little dark decadence won\u2019t wreck my figure. In fact, it may actually keep me slim. The few extra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n