The Healthy Holiday Comfort Food - Dark Chocolate
During the ever-mounting holiday festivities, mall shopping, office parties, family gatherings, neighborhood driveway fire pit gatherings; they all include that holiday food. Solution: During the ever-mounting holiday festivities take a healthy dark chocolate dessert or just carry some with you so you can still be eating with the rest of party goers.
My favorite healthy chocolate snack dessert is: put halves of pecans on a cookie sheet, spread with waxed paper, in a single layer; melt a bar of at least 70% dark chocolate in a double boiler, then drizzle the melted chocolate over the pecans. Depending on how many pecans you are using is how much chocolate you melt. Then I put the cookie sheet in the refrigerator for a little while to set the chocolate. They are a chocolate nut delight.
Did you know that eating 30 calories per day of dark chocolate may lower high blood pressure, it is a good idea to keep it limited to small portions as it is candy and it could blow your diet, just a little goes a long way.
Another thing to know is that the health benefits do not include milk chocolate or white chocolate, and you also need to watch the sugar content. Health food stores have bars with 75% (or greater) chocolate with only 5 grams of sugar and also are organic, so keep them in supply so when you are invited to a potluck and/or party, grab your chocolate bar and know you will be staying healthy and still get your chocolate fix.
Dark Chocolate increases dopamine release and provides flavonoids, which help keep arteries young. Chocolate also is a potent antioxidant, which gobbles up free radicals. But do not wash it down with milk as the two do not mix to keep the healthy benefits of the chocolate.
Thought for the Day: "Time and health are two precious assets that we do not recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted." -Denis Waitley-
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