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It is widely believed that eating dark chocolate is good for cardiovascular health. Some health and lifestyle experts, however, emphasized that there is no evidence for this fact. Recently, the British Journal of Nutrition published a new study, which supports regular consumption of chocolate. Before changing your diet to eat more chocolate and sweets, you should understand that this study is published based on clinical observation and available data. According to the new study, the researchers from Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), university of South Australia, university of Warwick Medical School and university of Maine suggested that consuming a small amount of chocolate every day can help to prevent insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. The study considered the data of 1,153 people between the ages 18 and 69. When comparing the health of various participants, the research group found lower insulin resistance and healthy liver enzymes in those who claimed that they ate around...

Chocolate is often seen as an indulgence, a naughty little treat that always leaves us feeling a bit guilty after we've taken the last bite, but is it really such a bad thing? Actually, chocolate isn't half as unhealthy as you might believe. It just depends on the kind of chocolate that you're eating. Milk and white chocolate are great for a treat and should be enjoyed guilt-free, but other types of chocolate have some surprising benefits you might not have been aware of. Dark chocolate, however, is a different story. Studies have found that dark chocolate has a lot of health benefits (though it's not an excuse to start scoffing with wild abandon). Here are just some of the health benefits of dark chocolate: • Dark chocolate is a great source of antioxidants (in fact, one of the best sources on the planet) • Dark chocolate can improve your blood flow as well as lowering your blood pressure • Dark chocolate can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease While everyone ha...

This year celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ballotin. I am sure that every Belgian chocolate connoisseur has opened one - or many - of these ballotin boxes in their life. In fact, since its creation in 1915, the ballotin has always been around, carefully filled with chocolates in a countless number of shops or voraciously enjoyed by thousands of chocolate lovers around the globe. This box is elegant yet understated in its appearance, and it showcases the content while successfully protecting it. The beginning of the last century saw two major inventions that changed the way people enjoyed chocolate: In 1912 Jean Neuhaus developed a technique that made possible, for the first time, to create chocolates with a soft filling. This first invention was called the "praline". These chocolates continued to be sold wrapped in paper, a traditional method that however had two major drawbacks: it was not able to display the chocolates in an elegant way and even worse it offered very...