Chocolate: What was once bad is now good

We have been repeatedly warned that eggs, coffee, sugar, alcohol, butter and chocolate are detrimental to your health.  An article on Empowher discusses how these things might not be so bad after all.

For ages, it seems, parents and health professionals said that chocolate makes us pimply, rots our teeth and offers no health benefits. Au contraire. Chocolate is chock-full of minerals and has some of the same antioxidants found in fruits and vegetables that ward off disease, particularly heart disease. Unlike gummy and caramel candies, chocolate doesn’t stick to your teeth, causing cavities. And don’t try to blame chocolate for blemishes; researchers have found no correlation between the two. In fact, the antioxidants may improve the appearance of your skin by combating inflammation from free radicals.

From “Six Once Forbidden Foods That Aren’t So Bad For Us, 6/28/09

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