Heard there are health benefits of chocolate. What are they?
There are only benefits to eating DARK chocolate. And dark chocolate will:
-Decrease blood pressure
-Improve circulation
-Lower death rate from heart disease
-Improve function of endothelial cells that line the blood
In another surprising revelation, the report claims that wine in moderation can also act as a fat releasing agent, so one small glass of red in the evening can have beneficial results for weight loss.
And switching out refined sugar for honey and desert for a tea that mimics the sweet taste of a piece of pie, will both contribute towards a lower calorific intake.
Watching what you eat has long been advocated as a steady, well-paced process but research from the University of Florida found that a rapid and significant weight drop at the beginning of a diet resulted in nearly every case in the long term success of keeping trim.
Of course, no weight loss advice would forget the importance of exercise but GMA and Reader's Digest have what they deem an unexpected perspective.
Rather than
pounding the treadmill for hours at a time, interval training they say,
is far more effective, giving the body a shock.
The danger of long, drawn-out cardio sessions, they report, is the misconception that they allow for an unrestricted diet which more often than not upsets the balance and leads to weight gain.
Cardiometabolic benefits from eating chocolate, by David W. Woodruff, MSN, RN-BC, CNS, CMSRN, CEN, from Ed4Nurses, Inc.
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