What are your good reasons to eat more Chocolate?

Question

Read that chocolate contains phenols & Antioxidants, "Andrew Waterhouse PH.D." These phenols have been shown to improve vascular wall tone & lower blood pressure.
Don't you just love those kind of research studies?

Answer 1

It's an aphrodisiac that can be eaten before during and after and it comes in solid and liquid form and it is bittersweet making you happy and guilty all at the same time

Answer 2

Chocolate reduces bad cholesterol. Dark Chocolate is better, because there is less added sugar and less whole milk (which increases bad cholesterol). In fact, my doctor recently recommended dark chocolate in my diet.

Bits I've stolen from various articles on the web:

[ Eating one hundred grams of plain chocolate boosted volunteers’ antioxidant levels by almost 20%, while eating milk chocolate or drinking milk while eating plain chocolate did not have the same effect ]

[ Flavenoids are the same chemicals found in red wine and have been found lower LDL cholesterol (low density lipoproteins, “bad” cholesterol) levels as well as exert a protective effect against coronary heart disease. ]

[ Chocolate contains high levels of certain chemicals, called phenolics, which are antioxidants and might interfere with the oxidation of LDL," LDL cholesterol is the "bad" form of cholesterol that clogs arteries, contributing to heart disease. ]


Links to a couple of those articles:

http://www.romolochocolates.com/news/lowerheartdisease.htm

http://cholesterol.about.com/od/cholesterolloweringfoods/a/chocolate.htm

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I would like to point out that chocolate is toxic to non-human pets. Dogs are usually affected more often because they have a sweet tooth (like drinking anti-freeze. Sheesh, great survival instinct, boy). Onions, grapes/raisins and other things I forget are also toxic. Here's a short dry technical article about the chocolate toxicity:

http://vetmedicine.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=vetmedicine&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aspca.org%2Fsite%2FDocServer%2Ftoxbrief_0201.pdf%3FdocID%3D111

If that doesn't work, try this link: http://tinyurl.com/nv5ck

Answer 3

a FEW reasons actually..when u're like weak from a cold or some small illness, chocolate gives you a relative amount of energy to feel better with..and of course its jst SOOOO darn good

Answer 4

All the better I say!...... Just gives me another reason to eat more!...... Now hand over the chocolate and no one gets hurt! ! LOL

Nice tidbit thanks!
With a smile,
Mo

Answer 5

it only works if you eat chocolate that is at least 60% cacao - no milk chocolate or regular candie bars, you've got to find the good, gourment dark chocolate - too bad, that just happens to be my favorite :)

Answer 6

I really don't have a good reason the only one I can think of is just beacause it tastes soooooooooooooo gooooooooooood.

Answer 7

All of those are true, plus it stimulates the pleasure part of the brain. Oh, that feels good!

Answer 8

You NEVER need a reason to eat chocolate. Unless you're fat.

Answer 9

Can't read, eating more chocolate

Answer 10

chocolates are ghood for uyopu, u get fat, and leads to noone picking on you