Minggu, 29 Januari 2012

Healthy Chocolate

  Valentine is coming !!Chocolate are the most lovely gift for your Valentine and when it is designed in heart shape it look fantastic and romantic too.

Send Valentine chocolate gift for your Valentine along with beautiful Valentine card and flowers. Say the magical words “ I love you to your sweetheart” to express your heart felt feelings.

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Chocolate, the food is much preferred. Imagine when chewed or sipping a glass of hot chocolate or enjoy a chocolate tart with a layer would make a lot of people can not wait to do it.  
Not just as a snack for kids, but chocolate also enjoyed many adults. 
 
In fact, chocolate is often used as a gift for someone dear. Why is chocolate considered a sign of love someone? Any substance contained in chocolate so that these foods have a lot of the audience? Whether chocolate is dangerous for health food?

Benefits of Chocolate for Health 
Chocolate containing cocoa (cocoa beans) more than 70% also have benefits for health, because chocolate is rich in antioxidant content of phenols and flavonoids.  
With the presence of antioxidants, will be able to capture free radicals in the body.  

The amount of antioxidant is even 3 times more than green tea, a beverage that has been often regarded as a source of antioxidants.With the presence of antioxidants, making the chocolate into a health drink.  
Phenols, an antioxidant capable of reducing cholesterol in the blood so it can reduce the risk of heart attack are also useful to prevent cancer in the body, preventing the occurrence of stroke and high blood pressure. Besides the fat content in chocolate high quality proven cholesterol-free and does not clog arteries.Chocolate also contains several vitamins that are useful to the body such as vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin C, vitamin D, and vitamin E.  

In addition, chocolate also contains substances or nutrients that are essential to the body such as iron, potassium and calcium. Cocoa itself is the highest natural source of magnesium.
If someone magnesium deficiency, can cause hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, joint pain and problems of woman's monthly pre-menstrual (PMS).   

By eating chocolate will add daily nutritional intake of magnesium in causing increased levels of progesterone in women. This reduces the negative effects of PMS.

 
Chocolate for Beauty 

Other benefits of chocolate is for beauty, because antioxidants and catechins present in it can prevent premature aging, so do not be surprised if at this time developed a very good chocolate body scrub for your skin.

The Healthiest Chocolate Types 

Many types of chocolate available in the market. There are expensive, some are cheap. What are the differences? Here is a comparison type of chocolate and benefits of each. 

    Dark Chocolate      
Dark Chocolate contains cocoa bean (cocoa) the highest of at least 70% containing cocoa. Dark chocolate contains cocoa or chocolate beans ever, without a lot of sugar and no saturated fat or hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). 

    White Chocolate
    
While white chocolate only has 33% content of chocolate or cocoa, the rest is sugar, milk and vanilla. The content of this sugar that can give negative effects, such as tooth decay and diabetes.









    
Chocolate Milk

    
Milk chocolate or milk chocolate is cocoa mixed with milk and sugar added. This type of chocolate is also very popular because it tastes delicious.


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Wherever choose chocolate with a little sugar content so you can enjoy the great benefits that have chocolate. You will feel the benefits if you eat chocolate with cocoa content chocolates and nuts are high. Enjoy your chocolate!
HAPPY VALENTINE DAY EVERYONE