The Truth about Chocolate and Your Skin...

Here’s a formula for sensational skin: Cleanser, Moisturizer, Sunscreen and… Chocolate?

You heard right. When eaten, flavanol-rich cocoa, the main ingredient in dark chocolate, improves skin's texture, thickness, hydration, and blood flow. It may even boost your skin's defence against the sun by up to 25 percent How? It packs serious antioxidant power… Just don't overdo it --chocolate is high in fat and calories, too. And you still need to wear sunscreen every day.

RealAge Benefit: Getting the right amount of antioxidants through diet or supplements can make your Real Age 6 years younger.

So think of Chocolate as RealAge Benefit food...

Be Healthy, be Happy, look Greeeeeat!

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Choooooocolate The Elite Superfood

Feel Guilty no more. Chocolate has been reappraised as an Elite SUPERFOOD:

Harvard studies and candy merchants alike are excitedly touting its health benefits. But can these claims be too good to be true?
Before you reach for that candy bar, it’s important to realize that health benefits are found in unadulterated chocolate, such as raw cocoa powder abs cacao nibs.
We are accustomed to eating naturally bitter cacao in its sweetened, processed form. But many nutrients are lost during chocolate processing. That’s why making a drink with unprocessed, unsweetened cacao is an ideal way to reap chocolate’s benefits. Most health food stores carry organic cacao powder, and many stock raw cacao nibs for healthy, portable snacking. These nibs are the centre of the cacao beans, found within the large pod fruit of the Theobroma cacao tree.

Caroline Cski, CHNP (“Alive” Canada’s Natural Health and Wellness Magazine)
Feb 2008

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