Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Using Chocolate for Fitness Action Plan



Isn’t chocolate wonderful? Aren’t January diets a nightmare? Well yes actually – to both. Nevertheless both are as important as the other. Your diet is essential. You want to get yourself fit and lean in preparation for the summer and after the excesses of winter you are felling a little bit over fed and under exercised. Nevertheless that shouldn’t mean you have to miss out on the occasional indulgence – should it? Well actually no it shouldn’t. Sweet foods and in particular chocolate can fit into a well balanced diet and can even be part of a fitness strategy.


Chocolate has been utilised as a fantastic resource of energy for a number of years. Sportsmen and women allow themselves the occasional bar of chocolate as part of their diet and army rations have almost always included a large bar of chocolate. There has been a great deal of research that has concluded that certain types of chocolate are good for you. In particular chocolate that contains high levels of cocoa is considered to be the healthiest type. Chocolate with a cocoa content above 70% has been recognised as offering a number of benefits. For starters it offers a number of nutrients that can be sparse in other foods for example iron, calcium, potassium, and vitamins A, B1, C, D and E and most significantly magnesium.

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