Be more healthy - eat
more chocolate
Bizarre but could it
be true?
As well as protecting you on the inside,
chocolate can help you on the outside,
for instance, "to
ensure smooth, silky skin avoid rough
foods like celery,
potato skins and shredded wheat. Stick
to silken foods like cream, chocolate
sauce and mashed potatoes" (Taken
from an interview with Miss Piggy, conducted
by Henry Beard.)
Miss
Piggy has a point, though she may not
know the scientific basis for it.
The fibrous part of the cocoa bean contains
powerful anti-oxidants, the same as those
found in grape skins no less, these mop
up harmful free radicals in the blood
which, if left to run riot, destroy skin
cell membranes and cause the breakdown
of elastin fibres, without whose support
skin becomes wrinkled and saggy and nobody
loves us. According to best selling nutrition
writer, Jean Harper, “nothing
protects your health and extends life
more than
a steady supply of antioxidants to your
cells”.
Emergency rations might just save
your life
And speaking of extending life, are
you planning a mountaineering expedition?
Cross-country hike? A day’s
ski-ing? Are you perhaps lost in
the dark, alone,
unable to move i.e. pot-holing? Then
packing a bar of chocolate in your
lunchbox could turn out to be more
than just a treat, it could mean
the difference between life and death;
This
was certainly true for two students
in 1995 when they got caught in a blizzard
on Ben Nevis. Severely frostbitten and
suffering from hypothermia, they munched
chocolate and managed to survive two
nights in sub-zero temperatures before
being rescued. Five portions of fruit
and veg a day are all well and good but
in a life-threatening emergency you want
to be packing chocolate not crudités.
OK maybe that's pushing
it
Packing chocolate could even save you
costly sessions pumping iron at the gym.
Ask yourself – do I really need
to go when lifting a bar of chocolate
(75g), finished in 10 bites (420g), three
times a day (1.26kg), results in an annual
weight lifted of 1.3 tons?
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