How to Fight Heart Disease With Chocolate

There are many things that you can do to fight heart disease. Modern medicine is coming up with new treatments, remedies and surgical procedures to help deal with this serious health problem. Also, your diet and exercise habits can play a major role in your susceptibility to heart disease. However, you may not have known that your Valentine's candy could do just as much for you as other heart-healthy habits.

Instructions

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Eat dark chocolate. Dark chocolate has been shown in clinical studies to be the most highly effective type of chocolate when it comes to fighting heart disease. People who ate a dark chocolate bar each day had a significantly higher number of heart disease fighting compounds in their systems than those who did not.

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Consume in moderation. Do not start eating chocolate at every meal of the day. At the very most, you should have a medium sized chocolate bar once a day. Even this may be more than you actually need. If you eat an entire box of chocolates at once, you will just get sick rather than doing anything good for your heart.

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Skip the milk. Milk and milk chocolate not only do not fight heart disease, they actually can interfere with the benefits of dark chocolate if you consume them less than 30 minutes after eating your daily dose of dark chocolate. Do not follow your chocolate bar with a glass of milk or you will actually negate any benefits. Furthermore, milk chocolate does not help fight heart disease in any way.

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Use the chocolate to replace other calories. In order to be able to consume a chocolate bar every day without interfering with your dietary health or weight requirements, replace other calories with the dark chocolate bar. For example, if you have a delicious, creamy frozen coffee treat on the way to work each morning, you might need to start having straight coffee--literally less than a tenth of the calories of the frozen coffee in many cases--in order to accomodate your new chocolate habit.

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Avoid white chocolate. White chocolate is not really chocolate, and therefore does not have the benefits of chocolate when it comes to combatting heart disease.