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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Birthdays...or chocolate is good for you!

Every birthday I wanted a chocolate cake, with chocolate icing.  As you can probably guess, I love chocolate!  My mom would make me a cake, and we would have ice cream, generally, chocolate!

My mom would tell me all the time that eating that much chocolate is not good for you.  Well Mom, now days researchers disagree with you!

Much research has been done on chocolate, and it all seems to agree that dark chocolate is good for you.  Some of the various research has shown that chocolate is good for you in these ways.

1- lowers cholesterol levels
2- helps preserve memory from decline
3- lowers your risk of heart disease
4- eating chocolate lowers your risk of having a stroke 22%, and if you have one and eat chocolate, you are 46 % less likely to die from the stroke.
5-lowers your blood pressure
6-helps cut your risk of insulin resistance
7-Helps lower your reactions to stress
8 Increases blood flow to the brain,
9-Helps protect your skin from sun damage.

 So go ahead and eat chocolate, remember, the darker chocolates are very beneficial!!