Holiday Dieting; A Sweet Way To Cheat! by Laura Turner, C.P.T

Holiday Dieting; A Sweet Way To Cheat!

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 the holidays

just around the corner, 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:

•Cocoa—the precursor to chocolate--has been around a

long time. A few thousand years, in fact. It has been thought

that cocoa beans were brought to Europe in the 1500’s by

Christopher Columbus.

•Cocoa, later made into chocolate, was given to American

Soldiers in WWII. A source of high energy, each solider was given

a three chocolate bar per day ration, according to historical

data.

•Researchers started getting more involved when studies

began showing that in addition to being a high energy food,

chocolate also seems to stimulate elevated moods. Researchers

found truth to this, showing that dark chocolate does, in fact,

increase levels of the mood-altering chemicals such as serotonin

and endorphins.

•Some researchers have also gone on to conduct major

studies to prove the correlation between chocolate and a true

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