Wellness-vs-Health, Healthy Chocolate

Wellness-vs-health, healthy chocolate will describe to you what's healthy and what's not so healthy in the chocolate world.

My Healthy Chocolate has been all over the news in recent months. Dark Healthy chocolate is quickly becoming the new health food buzz word. Can anything so delicious really be healthy for you?

The Answer is, yes, no, and maybe. Sounds confusing does it not?Here at wellness-vs-health, healthy chocolate we try to be brief, pointed and accurate.

In order to understand the healthy value of chocolate we need to understand what ORAC values are. ORAC is the shortened form of, Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity. It is a way to measure the antioxidant levels in raw or cooked foods.

That gives us a way to measure how well any given food can absorb the damaging free radicals in our system. The higher the ORAC value the higher the ability to absorb the cell damaging free radicals.

According to USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory, these are the given ORAC values for the following short list.

Dry cocoa powder Unsweetened 3.5 oz =82,000 ORAC value,

Dutched, chocolate powder, 3.5 oz =39,900 ORAC value,

Blueberries 3.5 oz =6,520 ORAC value, Strawberries 3.5 oz =3,541 ORAC value, Spinach 3.5 oz =1,512 ORAC value, Tomatoes 3.5 oz = 546 ORAC value, Winter squash - Butternut squash 3.5 oz = 396 ORAC value,

See an extended list of different foods and their oxygen radical absorption capacities. wellness-vs-health, healthy chocolate has done the research.

Antioxidants have the ability to search out and destroy free radicals in your system. Free radicals are caused by many factors. Stress, bacteria, viruses, invasive parasites, poisons, smoking, obesity just to name a few.

Free radicals can cause any number of chronic disorders like, cardiovascular disease, cancer, fibromyalgia, arthritis, asthma, etc. The right kinds of dark, healthy chocolate are loaded with polyphenols and Flavanols [Forms of antioxidants] that can help rid your body of the free radicals that cause these and many other health problems.

Because healthy chocolate is good for you does not mean that more is better. To the contrary, small amounts [3.5 oz] daily can and will promote wellness and health benefits. Chocolate is high in calories, too much and you gain weight, but just a little daily, can help control or even reduce weight.

So, what will a good healthy chocolate do for you.

A number of studies have been done on the health benefits of chocolate and the studies show that chocolate strengthens the heart and may help reduce or even prevent edema, heart failure and strokes. The continued use of a good healthy chocolate can lower blood pressure, reduce LDL cholesterol and increase HDL [the good] cholesterol.

At the outset of this article we asked a question. Is chocolate healthy for you---- we said, Yes, No, and maybe. We have answered the yes part in this article. Wellness-vs-health, healthy chocolate shows how a good healthy chocolate is beneficial for wellness and health. In our next article we will show you the no, and maybe, part of our answer.

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