Must visit medicalgk 3 Healthy Reasons To Love Chocolate 1. Heart Friendly: Chocolate especially dark chocolate is heart friendly. Flavonoids and antioxidants present in it lower blood pressure and increase flexibility of arteries. They also have anti-inflammatory effects preventing heart diseases. 2. Healthy benefits of chocolate fats: It’s no denying that chocolate contains fat but not all of them are bad. It contains oleic acid which is healthy monounsaturated fat and stearic acid which help in neutralization of cholesterol. Even if these are not enough reasons to love chocolate then let me tell you a research in university of Copenhagen showed that dark chocolate lessens cravings for sweet, salty and fatty food, giving a feeling of fullness and thus decreasing the total requirement of needed diet and in turn helps in reduction of weight. 3. Anti-diabetic effects: Even diabetics have reasons to love chocolate. Flavonoids increase production of nitric oxide. A research in university of L’Aquila in Italy proved that consuming dark chocolate can decrease insulin resistance in diabetics, suffering from insulin independent or type 2 diabetes mellitus. Dark chocolate also have low glycemic index, so it won’t cause huge spikes in blood sugar level.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:00:00 +0000
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