{"id":2615,"date":"2009-02-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/chocolate-eating-lessons-2.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:23:21","slug":"chocolate-eating-lessons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Eating Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SYhnVZm3BSI\/AAAAAAAABaY\/8RqHAElLrys\/s1600-h\/SmallMeal.jpg\"><img data-opt-id=1766933718  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298598578950178082\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SYhnVZm3BSI\/AAAAAAAABaY\/8RqHAElLrys\/s320\/SmallMeal.jpg?w=735\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>Size, As We Know, Matters:<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just as two glasses of wine help the heart, and two bottles per day kill the liver \u2026 a little chocolate is beneficial, but becomes a health (and weight) liability when over-consumed. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Thus, what makes chocolate \u201cgood for you\u201d or \u201cbad for you\u201d has more to do with your eating habits than the chocolate itself.<span><\/p>\n<p>To keep it healthy, start small. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Size, As We Know, Matters: Just as two glasses of wine help the heart, and two bottles per day kill the liver \u2026 a little chocolate is beneficial, but becomes &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[470],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-chocolate-eating-lessons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-Gb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2616,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2616","url_meta":{"origin":2615,"position":0},"title":"Chocolate Eating Lessons","author":"Will Clower","date":"February 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Eat the dark chocolate:As popular as milk chocolate is, it\u2019s the dark chocolate that\u2019s healthful.What gives chocolate its trove of amazing health properties is the cocoa itself. 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