You Won't Believe What Chocolate Does
by Cathryn Conroy, Netscape News Editor

Sweet! A chocolate bar a day could keep the doctor away. According to the American Chemical Society, the polyphenols and antioxidants in chocolate have heart-helping and cancer-fighting
properties.

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Chocolate is packed with polyphenols, chemical compounds renowned for their heart-helping properties. Chocolate has as much polyphenols as red wine. Polyphenols have been shown to prevent LDL cholesterol (the "bad" cholesterol) from oxidizing into a form that damages arteries. Eating chocolate also raises the "good" cholesterol by about 10 percent, which in turn lowers the risk of heart complications by 20 percent, according to Joe A. Vinson, Ph.D., professor of chemistry at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.

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The power of chocolate doesn't stop with protecting your heart. Dark chocolate--and the darker the better--is packed with antioxidants which are believed to fight cancer. Vinson says that most
of the antioxidants are found in the cocoa liquor, a derivative of the cocoa bean that is used in both milk chocolate and dark chocolate but not in white chocolate. And here's the really good
news: Vinson says the antioxidants in chocolate are a very high quality, far superior to the antioxidants found in other foods, such as strawberries and garlic. "The higher quality
the antioxidants, the more work they can do," Vinson explained at a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society. "We've found that the antioxidants in dark chocolate are higher quality than even vitamins C and E."

Do it for your good health!

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