Healthy Chocolate

Cacao podIt isn’t just children who love chocolate, it is a great favourite of adults too.  People love it, perhaps women more than men, particularly at that special time of the month.

So, why is it that chocolate is responsible for so much inner anxiety, stress and emotional turmoil?

Why do so many people battle with their thoughts and feeling about chocolate?
 
Why is it that so many people feel such and uncontrollable urge for it, which they either deny, or succumb to and then feel guilty?

The answer to these questions and so much more, is in the chocolate choices we make.  We are surrounded by these colourful wrappers and bombarded with clever marketing which invites us to savour the delights of chocolate.  It’s a multi-million dollar industry and one which we have been brainwashed to have guilty pleasure in.

However, real chocolate called cacao (pronounced ka-cow) is so tasty and incredibly good for you that you can eat it everyday without guilt.  Yes ladies, I did just say that you can eat this amazing choc everyday – in fact I highly recommend it!

I am not in anyway talking about those choc bars that you see in the shops, those ones that shout at you from the shelves all day, everyday, everywhere.  Not that over processed, sugary, fatty gack – there is nothing healthy about that chocolate at all, no matter how beautifully they wrap it or how cleverly they market it. 

I am talking about the real stuff – Raw Cacao.
It has the highest antioxidant value of all the natural foods in the world.  When it comes to supplying your body with effective antioxidants, no other natural food can even come close.  The antioxidants in cacao are easily absorbed by the human body, and are more stable and long-lasting than those in any other foods.  Cacao is a good source of magnesium, calcium, sulphur, iron, copper, zinc, potassium, manganese, as well as some B vitamins.

To think, you can have all that scrumptious pleasure as part of a healthy lifestyle and at last let go completely of all those emotional highs and lows.

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