In a world of foods and drinks that diminish your health and well being, dark chocolate is a striking contrast.  Read how you can make eating chocolate a subversive act by adding dark chocolate to your diet in place of nutritionless snacks!

Dark chocolate is packed with anti-oxidants as it is practically condensed fruit.  Sure, it has fat, but as part of a balanced diet, it certainly packs a nutritional punch.  You’ll only need a little to get the goodness you need.  You should make it part of your daily life – an indulgence which helps to reduce cholesterol and help protect your heart.  Read up on the health benefits here.

It isn’t much good wasting time with white or milk chocolate, or “dark” chocolate lite which hardly has any of the life-giving cocoa in it.  You need dark chocolate which is at least 70%.  This is generally cholesterol and dairy free.

Here’s a great type that I found, Green & Black’s 85% organic chocolate.   It is freetrade, so it is helping people in third world countries achieve financial independence, it is organic, so doesn’t contain any pesticide residues and it tastes fantastic.  Some dark chocolate tastes very harsh and bitter, but this one is mild and flavoursome (I think that it is the organic vanilla that they add to it).

Dark chocolate is an acquired taste.  If you are used to cheap sweets and chocolate laden with sugar and palm oil, it will be a shock (you might spit it out).  But try out something new and be a bit different.  Take a step away from the world of flavourless, unhealthy chocolate!

Tags: health, lifestyle change

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