The Healthy Holiday Comfort Food - Dark Chocolate

During the ever-mounting holiday festivities, malland it could blow your diet, just a little goes a long way.
shopping, office parties, family gatherings, neighborhoodAnother thing to know is that the health benefits do
driveway fire pit gatherings; they all include that holidaynot include milk chocolate or white chocolate, and you
food. Solution: During the ever-mounting holidayalso need to watch the sugar content. Health food
festivities take a healthy dark chocolate dessert or juststores have bars with 75% (or greater) chocolate with
carry some with you so you can still be eating with theonly 5 grams of sugar and also are organic, so keep
rest of party goers.them in supply so when you are invited to a potluck
My favorite healthy chocolate snack dessert is: putand/or party, grab your chocolate bar and know you
halves of pecans on a cookie sheet, spread withwill be staying healthy and still get your chocolate fix.
waxed paper, in a single layer; melt a bar of at leastDark Chocolate increases dopamine release and
70% dark chocolate in a double boiler, then drizzle theprovides flavonoids, which help keep arteries young.
melted chocolate over the pecans. Depending on howChocolate also is a potent antioxidant, which gobbles
many pecans you are using is how much chocolateup free radicals. But do not wash it down with milk as
you melt. Then I put the cookie sheet in the refrigeratorthe two do not mix to keep the healthy benefits of the
for a little while to set the chocolate. They are achocolate.
chocolate nut delight.Thought for the Day: "Time and health are two
Did you know that eating 30 calories per day of darkprecious assets that we do not recognize and
chocolate may lower high blood pressure, it is a goodappreciate until they have been depleted.
idea to keep it limited to small portions as it is candy