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Dark Chocolate Is Healthy Chocolate 

  I do advice you to click on this website above to find out more information about Dark Chocolate and health. It is an interesting article that comes from doctors. It had studies and facts about this topic and are very interesting to read and learn more about. The article talks about dark chocolate and how it helps to lower blood pressure. Check the link out above I can say that it is very educational. The studies done by Mauro Serafini and Dirk Taubert are quite interesting and should be read or looked at. 




Important Points of Article:
* Dark chocolate -- not white chocolate -- lowers high blood pressure, say Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Cologne, Germany.


* Dark chocolate -- but not milk chocolate or dark chocolate eaten with milk -- is a potent antioxidant, report Mauro Serafini, PhD, of Italy's National Institute for Food and Nutrition Research in Rome, and colleague 


* What is it about dark chocolate? The answer is plant phenols -- cocoa phenols, to be exact. These compounds are known to lower blood pressure.

Chocolates made in Europe are generally richer in cocoa phenols than those made in the U.S. So if you're going to try this at home, remember: Darker is better.

* Just remember to balance the calories. A 100-gram serving of Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate Bar has 531 calories, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. If you ate that much raw apple you'd only take in 52 calories. But then, you'd miss out on the delicious blood pressure benefit.

The article is about dark chocolate and how it helps to lower blood pressure. The article also mentions how antioxidants in dark chocolate help people with their health. The two studies mentioned in the article show how dark chocolate helps people. The article also mentions about chocolate for blood pressure and how dark is the better. 





This video talks about the benefits of chocolate. Talks about the history of chocolate. Talks about how chocolate benefits diseases. I found this video to be very helpful for students to know about and the students can have something to talk about their parents about something interesting that the students learned in school. As a teacher I would use this video with fourth, fifth, and sixth grades to explain the benefits of chocolate and then the students may want to have chocolate. This video is important for student to know and I think that it is important to teach students about antioxidants and to teach students about this topic when going over the human body systems. This is an important video filled with a lot of information and the kids will take a lot away from watching this video.