Health Benefits of Chocolate to a Toddler

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Kai never fails to spot a Celebrate chocolate truffle in our pantry. His reflexes are quick and focused: Get it now with no delay! This time it worked again. Look at this picture below.

He is too little to know the benefits of a real dark chocolate: like being full of antioxidants and flavonoids to protect heart and arteries, by reducing a bad LDL cholesterol.

You'd utter, "What about Fat in chocolate?" Well, the oleic acid in dark chocolate is actually a heart-healthy monounsaturated fat that has been shown to lower blood levels of bad cholesterol.

Reach out for dark types of chocolate to rip the benefits of Chocolate. The majority of brands use wax and additives in their chocolate products. So, when you buy dark chocolate, read ingredients on the back!

As far as Kai, he eats dark chocolate every day. Yes, that's the truth. And I love watching my baby getting "chocolatty" whenever he enjoys his treat.

Celebrate Your Baby Doing Joyful Things Today! Celebrate Dark Chocolate!

To Your Health!

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Eat A Variety of Nutritious Foods: Rule 3 to Control Your Appetite

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How do you control your appetite and cut your cravings?
Rule 3: Eat a lot of different, highly nutritious foods

Remember your strong cravings?

It is one thing to get rid of your hunger. But, if you are like a lot of people, the real culprit in your weight gain is your cravings. Do you sometimes get confused between being really hungry and craving snacks?

Do you sometimes feel cravings for "something" even if you're not sure what you are craving?

Do you ever wonder if you're getting all the nutrients your body really needs?

Do you realize your cravings, and your body's need for more nutrients are all part of the same problem?

We all know we probably eat too much… too many calories… too much fat… too much cholesterol.

Yet, we eat from far too few foods. So, while we are overeating we are starving our bodies of vital nutrients that only more food variety can provide.

Your body is designed to require a lot of nutrients you are not getting in your regular diet. It knows when it needs those missing nutrients.

When your body is hungry for nutrients, and it is not getting them, your body tells you in the only language it knows:

• Your body says, "Eat more food – perhaps I'll get what I need from your next meal."

• Your body says, "Crave this food – perhaps I'll get the specific nutrient I really need right away."

• Your body says, "Eat now – even if you're full, because I'm not getting what I need."

Persistent cravings are your body talking to you. It is insisting that you feed it a much wider range of nutrients. When you succumb to your body's insistent demand for more nutrition by eating the wrong foods, you consume more calories than you really need. And you gain weight. Worse, you are still under-nourished. So the craving problem keeps repeating.

Celebrate Chocolate contains the power of concentrated, natural plant nutrients from 59 whole foods. One bite. 59 concentrated foods. Day by day, your cravings fade away.

With Celebrate Chocolate™, your body is fed. It quits saying, “Eat more.” It quits insisting, “Eat now.”

No more confusion. You know when you are hungry. You can’t remember the last time you had cravings.

Less cravings. Less snacks. Less weight.

How do you control your appetite and cut your cravings?
Conclusion 3: Eat a lot of different, highly nutritious foods

Next to come...
How do your control your appetite?
Rule 4: Eat Small Meals, and Eat More Frequently

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Don't Eat Appetizers: Rule 2 to Control Your Appetite

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How do you control your appetite and cut your cravings?
Rule 2: Don’t eat appetizers

Have you ever been to a restaurant and the menu starts out with, guess what? “Appetizers.”

Think about it. What is an appetizer? If a restaurant is selling you their “appetizers” it’s not because they want you to eat less. Can you see that?

Most “appetizer” foods are designed to make you hungrier. That is their purpose, to make you want to eat more. And every restaurant uses appetizers to make sure you buy more food than you otherwise would.

Have you ever just sat down at a restaurant and they quickly give you a hot loaf of “free” bread? Why would they do that? To kill your appetite before they can tell you the “specials of the day”?

Bread is an appetizer (as are crackers and pretzels and a lot of other foods). They quickly tell your body, “eat more and do it now, dummy.”

And here is a not insignificant point: Why is the “cocktail hour” just before mealtime?

Because cocktails are fiendishly great appetite increasers. So too are those little hors d’oevres they serve with them. Now all alcoholic beverages quickly increase your appetite, but the classic martini-type drinks just do it faster and better.

Now, back to the restaurant. Notice how they always ask for your drink order first. Here is the deal: Not only do alcoholic beverages make you eat more (plus the calories in them), but caffeinated beverages (coffee or sodas), and drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup also increase your appetite.


Thus, if you owned a restaurant, wouldn’t you take the drink orders first, and while you were preparing them, give the table a free loaf of hot bread?

How do you control your appetite and cut your cravings?
Conclusion 2: Don't eat appetizers, or have drinks before your meal

Next to Come...
How do you control your appetite?
Rule 3: Eat a Variety of Nutritious Foods

CelebrateLifeNutrition.com – Satisfy Your Hunger
©2009 Laura Gontchar. All Rights Reserved.