Including Chocolate in Your Diet

In our textbook, Your Health Today, there is a chart from ChooseMyPlate.gov that provides all the victuals free radicals and suggested chance(a) servings and choices. I precept an older food pyramid, as well as on the USDA website, which has a group that is not on this chart, the fat, oils and sweets group. It is amusing to me that this group is at the top of the pyramid, but considered the group to consume least. In my opinion, this emplacement correlates with Americans high dough intake.\nDuring a CBS New York newscast, neuroscientist Dr. Will Clower utter dischargeing drinking coffee tree several(prenominal) times daily allow help with weight neediness and eating less. Clower withal utter to eat chocolate onwards and after both eat and dinner. A small component of chocolate can construe your appetite and may withal help regulate metabolism, Gastroenterologist Dr. Christine Frissora tell. Frissora said chocolate can also lower your cholesterol and reducing yo ur risk of stroke and meat attack. She recommended a serving should be the size of your thumbs end. Dr. Frissora stated you must(prenominal) indulge in easing suggesting 60 calories or less, and the darker the chocolate the better.\nI have forever and a day loved dark chocolate. I keep a cache of Hersheys dark chocolate Kisses and Hersheys modified grungy chocolate chips. The recommended daily sugar allowance is at most 36 grams (USDA.gov) although sugar is not listed as necessary. Dark chocolate Hersheys Kisses have 21 grams of sugar if you consume a full serving of 9 kisses. Based on the Dr.s recommendation, 4 Kisses would be approximately 10 grams of sugar, but the calories are high. At 21 calories per kiss, you provide be over by 24 calories on the Dr.s recommendation if you eat 4. I mostly using up the Hersheys Special Dark chocolate chips to make homemade furrow mix, but, if Im out of Kisses, I will eat these chips alone as well. The recommended serving is 1 tablespoo n which is approximately 12 chips. At 70 calories, these will receive perfectly in the pabulum ...