The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee28 Nov 2018

Health Benefits of Chocolate

Some call chocolate a superfood. Some just call it super. But is it healthy?

This week's episode of The Exam Room™ is devoted to investigating claims that chocolate can combat everything from heart disease and cancer to high cholesterol and blood pressure.

"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll goes one-on-one with dietician Maggie Neola to find out whether floating in Willy Wonka's chocolate river is the key to a long and healthy life or whether you'll go down with the candy ship.

Plus, former actor and environmental advocate Suzy Amis Cameron joins the show to talk about her new book "OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline, and Save the Planet." She details how eating just one less meal with meat and dairy each day can dramatically reduce your carbon footprint as well as improve your health.

Suzy also shares a funny story about what she found the first time she opened her husband's pantry! The shelves look much different today and her husband, director James Cameron, is now devoted to a plant-based diet as well.

In This Episode

The difference between cacao and chocolate
Comparing nutritional value of dark chocolate and milk chocolate
What antioxidants are in chocolate?
Can they help prevent cancer, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and strokes?
Can chocolate improve brain function?
How chocolate loses nutritional value during processing
How changing just one meal a day can improve the environment
Suzy Amis Cameron's moving story about why she adopted a plant-based diet
How she convinced her husband to go vegan

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