How to Eat More Chocolate and be Healthy!

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Many people cannot resist chocolate, which makes things tricky when you are trying eat healthier or prescribe to a weight loss plan. Thankfully, there is a way to keep chocolate in your diet and be healthy. Dark chocolate reduces blood pressure, helping your brain and heart and eating a little bit every day will help you curb cravings for other non-healthy sweet and salty foods. The key is having a bit of dark chocolate everyday, but not overdoing it by binging and eating too much. If it is too hard to only have a handful of dark chocolate chips or one or two squares of chocolate, use the following suggestions to limit how much chocolate you are consuming.

Try melting your daily allowance of dark chocolate and drizzling it on something yummy. You can add it to fresh fruit or popcorn or something more exotic. Some have tried pairing dark chocolate with unexpected foods and loved the results. Maybe put your chocolate on asparagus or roasted cauliflower. You could also try making chocolate covered olives, garlic, or sundried tomatoes. Get creative and see if you like the result. To get a boost of protein and a great chocolate flavor, you can fold your daily dose of chocolate into nut butter. You can buy butter made from pecans, walnuts, macadamia nuts, cashews, almonds, sunflower sees, hemp seeds, and coconut. Add chocolate to each and see what you like best. You can use your newly chocolate laced butter to fill celery stalks or for a dip.

The options are endless for including a bit of chocolate into dishes. Try it in some spicy dishes or something savory. Whatever you do, enjoy your bit of chocolate everyday and let your friends know that chocolate can be healthy!

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