Chocolate, Chocolate, Who's Got the Chocolate?

am continually amazed at how well dark and unprocessed chocolate fits into a solid health regime. I am amazed because it can be enjoyed and ingested daily, guilt free!
Being healthy is not a small thing, and something we no longer take for granted, especially as we get older. However, today, younger and younger people are cropping up with serious health issues. Diabetes is on the rampage...it's like a viral infection getting passed from one to another! Up until now, children with type II diabetes was unheard of.

The sugar industry is very powerful and wields an aggressive influence on eager but unknowing recipients. Sugar is included in most packaged, canned, frozen and dried food items. You name it and it has sugar in it, in one form or another. Who suffers from this sugar laden diet that is presented to us night and day, everywhere we look or turn? We all do, but most prevalently are the innocent and unsuspecting: our children.

It's impossible to resist the colorful and fun-filled commercials that stream into our homes via TV, internet, and radio without interruption. It's a billion dollar industry; but who is going to foot the billion dollar medical bill that has erupted? We have a generation of children growing up, with many of them manifesting serious symptoms: they are insulin resistant and obese, which is setting the stage for, and even resulting in diabetes. We hear news reports on this daily. Are people alarmed? I am not sure, but it is in fact, alarming!

This brings me back to the chocolate. Dark and unprocessed healthy chocolate supports the body at the cellular level; to nourish cells and tissues so they can do their intended job, which in part is ridding the body of toxins, wastes and fats that it's unable to use and doesn't want.

It also helps to manage and even prevent diabetes type II. In several different studies, scientists have discovered that flavanol-rich cocoa reversed the dysfunction of blood vessels in prediabetics. From their testing, these scientists concluded that high-dose flavanol cocoa improved insulin sensitivity. Cocoa was found to be just as effective in increasing insulin sensitivity as weight loss, exercise, medications and other dietary supplements. This should be encouraging news for anyone suffering from the ill effects of obesity, including type II diabetes.