Dark Chocolate from Your Severna Park Chiropractor

picture of dark chocolates in a red heart containerAlright, Back And Neck Care Center can't give you a piece of chocolate through the computer, but we do have the power to share some of its benefits with you.

Principally, chocolate is good for you, especially the dark chocolate kind. Really! Could that be why 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are bought for Valentine's Day? (1) Not really, but your Severna Park chiropractor hopes you get one full of dark chocolates!

Chocolate and its principal ingredient, cocoa, have beneficial effects for your heart, mind and body.

  • Cocoa has roughly 4 times greater antioxidant capacity than green tea and twice that of red wine. (2) The anti-oxidant flavanols encountered in cocoa beans lowers cell damage in heart disease and help reduce blood pressure. (4,6)
  • Moderate (not too much!) consumption of dark chocolate offers blood pressure reducing effects and anti-inflammatory activity. (3,6)
  • The anti-oxidants and the larger magnesium content in dark chocolate can improve constipation trouble and even speed up bowel movements! (2,5) We chiropractors know that constipation when you have back pain isn't good!

These conclusions are why Back And Neck Care Center can live with the enjoyment of dark chocolate...in moderation, of course. Mood, memory, brain function, heart, immune system and stress reduction may all benefit as well. (2) Whose day isn't taken up a notch with a piece of chocolate?!

Back And Neck Care Center knows that not all nutrition has to be in pill form or even boring food form. Check out these articles, then chat with us about the viability of adding some dark chocolate to your life at your next Severna Park chiropractic visit. Contact us now to set that up before all the chocolate hearts start arriving!
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