Chocolate is NOT a health food . . .
Posted by kathryn in Myths
While I’ve posted about the healthiest type of chocolate, I’d hate you to think I was part of the current Nestle campaign to turn chocolate into a health food.
Yep, Nestle, one of the big chocolate manufacturers, has launched a campaign encouraging health professionals to promote dark chocolate, because of its antioxidant properties. The “switch to dark” campaign shows chocolate spilling out of medicine bottles, under the byline “anti-oxidants never tasted so good”.
Do I need to say that, while chocolate contains antioxidants, it’s also full of fat and sugar? Or that fresh fruit and vegetables are much, MUCH better sources of antioxidants than chocolate . . . I thought not.
As Louise Baur from the University of Sydney says in the Herald:
Why can’t [the manufacturers] accept that chocolate is a wonderful ‘sometimes’ food and leave it at that?
08 September, 2007
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