9 Health Benefits of Chocolate

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Superfoods don't just come from your supermarket's produce aisle. In fact those chocolate candy bars next to the gummy bears now qualify. Study after study proves that dark chocolate—sweet, rich, and delicious—is good for more than curing a broken heart. The secret behind its powerful punch is cacao, also the source of the sweet's distinct taste. Packed with healthy chemicals like flavonoids and theobromine, this little bean is a disease-killing bullet. The only problem? Cacao on its own is bitter, chalky, nasty stuff. Enter milk, sugar, and butter—good for your taste buds, not always good for your health. Besides adding calories, these can dilute the benefits of cacao. So snack smart: Stick to healthy chocolate with at least 70 percent cacao (or cocoa, which is cacao in its roasted, ground form). As long as the content is that high, says Mary Engler, Ph.D., a professor of physiological nursing at the University of California at San Francisco, you can reap the be...
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5 Reasons Why Apple Cider Vinegar Is Amazing For Your Health

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It is true! You can boost your immune system, and thus prevent many diseases, if you know the effects of apple-cider vinegar. Now let’s get busy and read about them!

When you use unfiltered, unpasteurized and unheated apples in order to keep their original ingredients intact, you get organic apple-cider vinegar. It comes as a product of fermented pressed apple juice which is then converted into vinegar. Those ‘original intact ingredients’ remain visible at the bottom of a bottle or a jar as cloudy bubbles. At first, you may think that something has gone wrong with your healthy drink. Forget about that! Actually, most of those beneficial elements and compounds found in apple-cider vinegar such as enzymes, pectin and minerals are in the cloudy bubbles sunk at the bottom of the container. If you want to even the consistency of your beverage, simply give it a good shake! Organic apple-cider vinegar is an excellent health remedy because it is known to have many beneficial properties. And those coming from the apples are just a good starter! Many more are included in the party!

 The best 10 of these beneficial properties are elaborated just below:

 1. It is good for improving the digestion process Is your stomach killing you sometimes? A shake of water and apple-cider vinegar can significantly help you improve your digestion. The nutritionist Lisa Guy says that, taken before each meal, apple-cider vinegar improves digestion and is particularly beneficial for people with stomach issues such as reflux, bloating and indigestion.

She suggests using it either to make a salad dressing or taking 1 teaspoon with a glass of water 10-15 minutes before starting a meal. And follow this tip of advice: Use raw and unpasteurized apple-cider vinegar only because the filtered and pasteurized kind lacks enzymes and many other helpful nutrients. Unpasteurized, raw apple-cider vinegar is full of healthy beneficial minerals such as the acetic acid, amino acid, malic acid, pectin, enzymes, and more. Your digestive system will be grateful to you if you treat it with this mixture a couple of times a day.

 2. It relieves heartburn, other intestinal problems, as well as constipation When you mix organic apple-cider vinegar and water, you can normalize your low stomach acid condition that is a possible activator of heartburn.

 But pay close attention! In those suffering from chronic heartburn and ulcer problems, pure apple-cider vinegar might cause problems due to its strong acidity. In that case, make sure to use a diluted kind! A positive effect on the gastrointestinal tract in case of cramps and stomach gasses will surely have the pectin-a valuable substance found in the vinegar after being extracted from organic apples. Apple-cider vinegar can also be a mild laxative to be used when having problems such as constipation.

 3. It kills intestinal bacteria and prevents Candida The compounds found in apple-cider vinegar, notably the malic and acetic acids, can do miracles to your intestinal flora. They have antibacterial, anti-fungal and antimicrobial assets, so they might even help in controlling infections, such as the candida fungus, which often attacks the intestines.

 4. It boosts and strengthens the immune system You have probably heard the postulate that health, in a great deal, comes from a healthy stomach. Since the immune system is closely related to the condition of your intestinal flora, it is logical that an increase in probiotic bacteria will strengthen it. Malic acid’s antiviral characteristics make apple-cider vinegar a good defender from common ailments such as the cold. Having a swig of apple-cider vinegar will help you get rid of all unnecessary mucus in your body, will cleanse your lymph system and will help in alleviating allergies.

 5. It helps with blood sugar level regulation The main compound found in apple cider vinegar is acetic acid. It is a great helper with the digestion of simple carbohydrates in the body. And this is the key to lower sugar levels in the blood! When you intake high quality apple-cider vinegar, high blood sugar level can simply vanish!

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