Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight

Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight is a game-changing look at the world's most surprising (and luscious) health food: chocolate. Based on new groundbreaking research and the amazing results of his clients, who have lost more than 100 pounds, nutritionist and neuroscientist Dr. Will Clower dispels the myth that chocolate is just a "junk food" by revealing how this succulent food contains healthy antioxidants that can actually help you lose weight. All you have to do is take the Chocolate Challenge: an 8-week plan that reveals which type of chocolate is the healthiest and exactly how you should be eating it to maximize all of its surprising health benefits, including: - Weight loss of up to 20 pounds in 8 weeks - Reduced food cravings and appetite - Prevention and reversal of diabetes - Improved dental health - Significant improvement in blood pressure - Enhanced energy levels (up to 50%!) - Increased skin moisture and UV protection - And more! With Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight , Dr. Clower is finally bringing his incredibly successful-and delicious-plan to chocolate lovers everywhere!

Auteur
WILL CLOWER, PhD, is an award-winning neurophysiologist, neuroscientist, nutritionist, and founder of Mediterranean Wellness, Inc., which administers the PATH Healthy Eating and Weight-Loss Curriculum adopted by corporate clients across the United States. Dr. Clower's breakthrough work has been featured on The View, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, USA Today, and Dr. Oz. He is the author of The Fat Fallacy and The French Don't Diet Plan. He lives in Pittsburgh.

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Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight is a game-changing look at the world's most surprising (and luscious) health food: chocolate.

Based on new groundbreaking research and the amazing results of his clients, who have lost more than 100 pounds, nutritionist and neuroscientist Dr. Will Clower dispels the myth that chocolate is just a "junk food" by revealing how this succulent food contains healthy antioxidants that can actually help you lose weight.

All you have to do is take the Chocolate Challenge: an 8-week plan that reveals which type of chocolate is the healthiest and exactly how you should be eating it to maximize all of its surprising health benefits, including:

• Weight loss of up to 20 pounds in 8 weeks
• Reduced food cravings and appetite
• Prevention and reversal of diabetes
• Improved dental health
• Significant improvement in blood pressure
• Enhanced energy levels (up to 50%!)
• Increased skin moisture and UV protection
• And more!

With Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight, Dr. Clower is finally bringing his incredibly successful-and delicious-plan to chocolate lovers everywhere!

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Chapter 1

There's Chocolate and There's "Chocolate"

Remember the rule: There's nothing so wonderful in this world, so marvelous and perfect, that someone can't come along and totally screw it up. And chocolate is a great example: It can be used as a tool to lose weight, control consumption, and live a very healthy lifestyle. But not all chocolates will do this for you, because not all of them are created equal. There are as many versions and perversions of chocolate as there are of bread and butter. And just because you pick up a wrapper that has the word "chocolate" slapped on the label doesn't mean it has a place in your new healthy lifestyle.

So the very first step for you to take in the direction of chocolate-induced weight loss is to choose the type of chocolate that will help you lose weight and to avoid the kind that will pack on the £ds. To help you understand what's good chocolate, what's average chocolate, and what's complete nastiness, this chapter will walk you through the elements of normal real chocolate, how it's made, why it's good for you, and which "chocolates" you need to avoid completely.

CHOCOLATE versus "Chocolate"

If you want to eat chocolate and lose weight doing it, you are going to have to begin with this first lesson: There's good chocolate and there's bad chocolate. The same rule applies to everything, actually. Remember when we were told that all fat was bad? By the late 1970s and early 1980s, the low-fat dogma had become entrenched and was promoted by physicians, the federal government, the food industry, and the media. We all jumped on board, even though empirical evidence that it actually led to weight loss just wasn't there.1 Then the health advice was reversed, and we were told that some fats were actually good for you, but other fats were completely off-limits.

Next came the low-carb revolution. The Atkins-style diets became the fab fave diets du jour, and we were coached to believe that all carbs were bad. As a result, millions of people ate bacon, egg, and cheese omelets every day while avoiding the evil carbohydrate-laden items like fruit. After the perhaps predictable demise of that overly simplistic notion, even the most enthusiastic supporters of low-carb diets amended their advice: "Oops, sorry. Yes, actually there are also good carbs and bad carbs." And bread lovers all over the world breathed a collective sigh of relief. Do you see the theme yet? People make broad, sweeping generalizations, then have to eat their overportioned words. They tell us that we have to avoid every speck of some specific type of food, only to later backpedal from absolute value to nuance, from simplistic to realistic.

Cholesterol is a more recent example. That great dietary Darth Vader of the nutritional dark side turned out to have a softer side, too. At first, we were told to limit all cholesterol—yes, all of it. Now we've learned that advice was probably terrible, because cholesterol is all Jekyll-and-Hyde as well, just like the fats and the carbs that have a good side and a bad side. Right now, before you read on, I want you to guess what they're going to say about the new advice on cholesterol: There's good cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein, or HDL) and there's bad cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein, or LDL). You actually need good cholesterol. Welcome to the world of nutritional nuance.

What makes this all so confusing for ordinary people simply trying to live a healthy lifestyle is just how confident the voices are, every single time. Whether they're telling you to eat or not eat the margarine, to avoid eggs or not, to eat bread or avoid it like the plague, it's all stated with absolute conviction. The fact that their advice has been dead wrong in the past seems to have no bearing on the certainty they show now.

This same pattern of overstatement, followed by the inevitable graded retraction, will turn out to be just as true for chocolate. Chocolate is not bad. Chocolate is not something you should avoid. Chocolate is not your problem. In fact, it's your solution. The key to this distinction, just as with your carbs, fats, and cholesterol, is in knowing which is the good kind and which is the bad kind.

Although, I have to say, even the phrase "there's good chocolate and there's bad chocolate" is misleading, because all real chocolate is good chocolate. It only becomes bad when someone takes wonderful, delicious, healthful chocolate and diddles with it to the point that it has cheapened nutrition, dishwater flavor, and zero weight-loss potential. So, to sort all this out and get to the difference between chocolate and "chocolate," this chapter will cover the good, the bad, and the just plain ugly.

The Best Chocolates

All the amazing weight-loss and health benefits of chocolate come from one place and one place only: cocoa. That's all. High cocoa content equals high health benefits. Low cocoa content equals low health benefits. So, when you're browsing the zoo of chocolate choices spilling off your grocery store shelves, make sure to maximize the cocoa and minimize the rest.

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