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Chocolate Diet to Lose your Weight

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Chocolate diet was introduced by Italian dietitians. The period of chocolate diet is from 5 to 7 days; after that you should have a break for 4 days, but 6-days break is preferable.

The menu of chocolate diet
Chocolate diet allows the combination of these products, as well having snacks between the main meals. The products can be eaten in any variety. For example, eat fruits for breakfast on Monday, make a fruit salad on Tuesday morning, and mark the start of Wednesday with applesauce. The notable feature of chocolate diet is that starvation becomes anti-productive. Which means you need not starve yourself, it is even prohibited. Hence it appears the official permission to have snacks between the main meals. Chocolates can help you to stay alert and thrilled but you can’t exceed the specified standard which is 30 g per day. There is no strict time framework for the chocolate diet, on the average you can reduce within a week.

Estimated daily list of products for chocolate diet:
• Pasta (spaghetti, noodles, and other solid pasta);
• Sauces for pasta (with a low-fat, mostly without the meat, with an exceptions of small pieces of white meat);
• Salads (filled with fatless sauces, without crackers);
• Vegetables;
• Fresh fruit;
• Popcorn (cooked without oil and salt); Toppings (supplements) for popcorn may include fatless oil and vegetable supplements, powdered garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, chili peppers, hard parmesan.
• Chocolate (30 g per day);
• Water (2 liters a day).

Sample of menu for chocolate diet:
Breakfast: Eat fresh fruits, fruit salad, wheat flakes with skimmed milk and strawberries.
Snack between main meals: popcorn, fruits, etc.
Lunch: salad, pasta salad, spaghetti, shells.
Snack between main meals: popcorn, vegetable assortment, fruit cocktail (0.5 0f fresh banana, 0.5 cup of peaches or other fruits to choose from, 1 cup of skimmed milk).
Dinner: fettuccini with garlic and tomato sauce or any other grained pasta, salad, vegetables, cooked by steaming or boiled.
Snack between main meals: popcorn, chocolate, etc.

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.