But you promised yourself you'd eat more nutritiously. So you ignore your craving as best you can, even though it seems to grow stronger by the minute. Give it up. No, not the chocolate, the struggle. Go ahead and indulge, occasionally.
Deprivation tends to lead to overeating.
So peel the foil off a little piece of heaven and read on. How sweet it is Dark chocolate contains four times more catechins, antioxidants believed to help boost the immune system and prevent heart disease, than black tea. But that's just one of the benefits researchers have discovered about chocolate in recent years. The researchers didn't ask what kind of candy the men ate, but they speculated that many chose chocolate. If that's true, the explanation for the results of the study may be that a 1.5 ounce piece of chocolate contains the same amount of the heart-protecting antioxidant phenol as a glass of red wine.