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Chocolate:How Become Antioxidants and What Are Their Benefits to the Body?

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Chocolates are more than a tasty sweet that we have come to love. Chocolate are healthy foods which contain benefits unparalleled by other so-called sinful foods. Chocolates are also approved by Medical Experts.Infact, This is good news for chocolates lovers.

Chocolates contain many traces element and nutrients such as iron,calcium and potassium with different kinds of vitamins.Cocoa is very famous for  the highest source of natural magnesium. A benifits of magnesium is linked with hyper tension, heart diseases, diabetes, joint problems and pre- menstrual tension.

Chocolates, specially dark chocolate, are full loaded with antioxidants that are very beneficial for your body organs. It has also generous amounts of antioxidants called phenols and catechins. These antioxidants are found specially in green tea. This partially helped launch the tea as a healthy drink.Recent research found that dark chocolate contains four times more quantities of these antioxidants. If you love to  green tea for health reasons, then you would also love its much better counterpart. Chocolate have also contains procyanidin, a flavanol that also benefits the heart.

Phenol that is a antioxidants, found in red wine. Its main benefit to the body is protection against heart diseases. These also prevent the oxidation of fat,like substances present in the blood stream.

On the other hand,Catechin has more extensive benefits. It prevents cancer and diabetes.It reduces the risk of having a stroke, heart attack, or any other heart-related disease.

It is very important to consume dark chocolate. The purer the chocolate is, the more beneficial it becomes. This is because white chocolate has lesser flavanoids but more milk. Milk is a potent agent for interfering in the absorption of the chocolate’s antioxidants in the body. This means that washing the chocolate down with milk may also negate the value of this treat in our bodies.