I. Loaded with sugar, packed with butter, chocolate is unhealthy, fattening, sinful..or so we thought.

A. New research released in a recent chocolate study reveals that this dessert may have some health properties to rival green tea and beta-carotene.

B. In short, chocolate could well be good for you.

I. Chocolate is good for your heart.

A. The concept that flavanol-rich cocoa inhabits platelet activation and delays blood clotting in healthy-nonsmoking adults.

1. There was a study done where subjects were fed a flavanol-rich cocoa beverage, a caffeine and succrose-containing control beverage, or just plain water.

2. The results… After blood samples were drawn 2 and 6 hours after beverage consumption, it was found that in the cocoa group, platelet activation was decreased and clotting time of blood was increased.

B. According to Andrew Waterhouse, from the University of California, chocolate actually carries high levels of chemicals known as *Phenolics, some of which may help lower the risk of heart disease.

C. Did you ever notice that dark chocolate is a little bitter?

1. This chocolate is actually better for you t

a. This brings about the feeling of pleasure that chocolate lovers experience.

2. This combination is said to be the “key factor” in the lift that chocolate eaters experience.

B. Also, a recent study found that male Harvard graduates who ate a moderate amount of chocolate and other candy had a 36% lower risk of death compared with non candy eaters, so what are you waiting for?

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