Eating chocolate every day is HEALTHY?

7 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Eating chocolate every day is HEALTHY?" (posted 2024-10-07) featuring a single speaker. The excerpt is a monologue about daily cocoa consumption—the speaker recommends about 6 g/day of 100% cacao/dark chocolate, cites flavanols and other benefits, clarifies cacao vs. chocolate, and frames cacao as a "superfood" that must meet standards (proper dosing, proportions, heavy‑metal testing) for inclusion in a strict diet.

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Why should people eat chocolate every day? Yeah, I've eaten a lot of cocoa over the past 3 years. Yeah, 6 grams a day. Yeah, it's high in flavanols and a bunch of other goodies, but— And this is dark chocolate, right? 100% pure cacao. I'm a noob to this. Cacao is dark chocolate? Oh, it's just powder. When we went through the diet and we said every calorie has to fight for its life, it creates a set of standards that the food has to be a superfood to begin with, and then it has to be in the exact proportions, and then it's got to be tested for, you know, heavy metals, etc. And so cacao hits that threshold of it's a superfood and 6 grams is about the right dose.