Chocolate makes you gain weight. Chocolate makes pimpled face. Chocolate can arouse sexual desire in women. This is the myth about chocolate. These things make us put chocolate into the list of foods that should be dipantang, especially for being on a diet. Yet, not all of these things right. Let's look at the facts about chocolate.

1. To get advantage of chocolate and cocoa, you need to know what you eat. Ideally you eat dark chocolate brown type, which was 70% contain cocoa. The higher the percentage, the more benefits you can take. Read brown wrapper, if there was a "non-or lightly alkalized or non-dutched". Avoid milk chocolate and white chocolate, which does not provide health benefits for you.

2. Watch portions. One study found that 30 calories flavanol-containing chocolate (concentrates from plants that function as antioxidants) can lower blood pressure. Try Hershey's Extra Dark of which contains 60% cocoa, which slices contain only 10 grams 55 calories.

3. Do not worry if you spent a box of chocolate alone. According to the American Association Diatetic, enjoying only 500 calories of chocolate will add weight approximately 56 grams. You can throw it back with vanilla Frappuccino not enjoy the next day.

4. Do not believe it when someone says that chocolate can increase sexual desire in women. No studies that prove this.

5. Cocoa beans contain antioxidants that fight inflammation from free radicals, which can make the skin red. According to Allison Tannis, MS, RHN, author of Feed Your Skin, Starve Your Wrinkles, cocoa beans that have been converted into a chocolate bar will lose antioksidasinya. Tannis therefore recommend drinking chocolate with nonfat milk.

6. 100 gram chocolate bar (which contains about 70-85% cocoa) contains 80 mg of caffeine. Compare this with a cup of coffee containing substance to hold the sleep of 95 mg. You are also not advisable to spend 605 calories of chocolate in one swallow.

7. If your cholesterol is high, usually you limit eggs, meat, and cheese. Chocolate, it must be included in the list of foods you must! One study found that the substance of the cocoa powder containing antioxidants contribute to the reduction of bad cholesterol (LDL), and increase good cholesterol (HDL).

8. Chocolate just preventing plague and cavities! But of course does not mean you should not brush my teeth before bed.

9. Ever heard scrubs with chocolate? Antioxidants and cocoa butter in chocolate to help moisturize and develop skin cells are healthy, according to Mira Goldin, owner of Body by Brooklyn Spa in New York City. Massage using chocolate that is melted, mixed with massage oil, for 90 minutes.

10. To get the benefits of chocolate without the added fat and calories, add natural cocoa powder into oatmeal, coffee, and yogurt, as a low-calorie way to get a daily dose of flavanol.

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