Eating lots of chocolate helps people stay thin, study finds

CBS News ^ | March 27, 2012 | Ryan Jaslow

[Innovative]

The study found that people who frequently ate chocolate had a lower body mass index (BMI) than people who didn't.

The researchers found that the participants - who were an average age of 57 - ate chocolate for an average of twice of week and exercised roughly 3.5 times per week. But the more frequent chocolate-eaters had smaller BMIs, a ratio of height and weight that's used to measure obesity.

What explains the effect? Even though chocolate can be loaded with calories, it's full of antioxidants and other ingredients that may promote weight loss, the researchers said.

[EEGator]

Okay, I thought so. Thanks for the reply.

[Grams A]

If you look long enough and hard enough you can find a study that supports anything you espouse as the total truth.

[Ezekiel]

I am enjoying a piece of 100% chocolate as I type. Just pure baking chocolate, no other ingredient. I eat this health food every day, yum. :)

Funny thing, before I cut way down on the carbs overall, this stuff tasted bitter. But after drastically reducing sweet-tasting food items from my diet (and eating much more animal protein and vegetables), the bitter taste of foods went away. Not just chocolate, but all sorts of odd stuff [that I wasn’t trying to acquire a taste for], like the whitish leaves of lettuce near the core, other previously nasty-tasting greens, the black part of the skins on walnuts, black teas, strong coffee, and so forth.

I am a chocoholic so if I don’t have my daily ration of 100%, I will hunt down the sugared variety. And I can’t ration that kind at all!

[sneakers]

Oh baby, baby, baby! I am so there! Count me in! And let me tell ya - if you could see me you’d say ‘that woman needs to eat a LOT of Cho olate’

Tee hee!

[Ezekiel]

Good caption, lol.

[Overtaxed]

if you add both theobromine and capsaicin to a hot tea or coffee drink it is a heluva pick-me-up.

I've got some baking chocolate and some pepper flakes. I'll have to give it a try.

[Carriage Hill]

That’s a *very disturbing image* and I don’t want to even go there. Read the full thread, as someone asks about “hygiene”... yuk.

[GOPJ]

There’s a reason things taste good to us...(as long as it’s natural)

[Carriage Hill]

I can’t/won’t look; I ruined my eyes on that thread the other day. How could her husband/kids allow that to happen (she willingly did it to herself)?

[Finny]

... 85% Lindt Chocolate...

That stuff is SO GOOD!!!

[Balata]

I’ve always tried to practice some moderation in my chocolate intake, but now, who cares? Chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner now!

You forgot Chocolate before going to bed.

[Argus]

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I HAVE EVER HEARD!!!!!!!!!

(Now if they could just find out that tequila and beer are good for your liver, and smoking cleans your lungs out...)

[Sirius Lee]

You forgot Chocolate before going to bed.

Chocolate DURING....um...bed. Within the sanctity of marriage of course, is what I meant to add.

[pacpam]

Chocolate is not empty calories and actually satisfies your hunger.

[Arrowhead1952]

There was a lady where I used to work who was half Hispanic and addicted to Milk Duds and always had those and miniature Hershey bars in her candy dish. She was about 5’ 8” and not a lb over 130. She won a Triathlon at age 35 or so and participated in it when she was 40 and 45.

[Paved Paradise]

I agree. I know that I do this myself. I’ll try not to eat chocolate...then I end up eating the chocolate cake, which has the added detrimental quality of all the bad carbs.

[JediJones]

Bill Clinton's chocolate of choice

[Balata]

It’s not the chocolate that is bad for you, it’s the way it is processed and everything added to it. They call that the “Dutching” Chocolate.

[little jeremiah]

What is Dutching (read the word but don’t know) and why is it bad?

[Doogle]

I’d hate to see him really angry