Lose Your Sweet Tooth
There is no nutritional requirement for sweet tasting food.
Superfood Cacao - Dark Chocolate
Recall how fructose is metabolically the only sugar. Moreover, there is no nutritional requirement for fructose. In the United States and in far too many Westernized foreign countries, people are being raise from birth to crave the sweet taste of sugar. Thus, losing your cravings for sweet tasting food will help a great deal to improve your natural health and wellness.
You can actually lose your taste for sweet tasting food in as little as two weeks.
The procedure is simple. Buy a 4-ounce (113 gram) bar of 100% Cacao premium baking, or dark chocolate. Be sure to read the food label to verify that it contains absolutely no added sugar.
Next, break the bar into small bite size pieces about an inch square in size, as you eat one piece a day. Your first bite of this bitter cacao will probably taste horrible. Eat it, anyway.
Superfood Cacao - Dark Chocolate
Cacao reduces your risk of cardiovascular disease due to its high content of polyphenols and flavonols.
Continue to eat one piece of your cacao bar a day until you have completely consumed it. At about the end of two weeks, you will actually start enjoying the taste of bitter cacao, and would have successfully gone a long way to losing your sweet tooth.
Of course, you could also attempt a more gentler approach by first eating one or two bars of 70% Cacao dark chocolate, before tackling 100% Cacao dark chocolate.
While fast and process food would taste like cardboard without a lot of added sugar, real food does have a natural taste to it. Adding healthy olive oil along with herbs and spices while cooking your food, will allow you to start enjoying a wide range of strong flavors other than the sweet taste of sugar.
Cacao nuts are grown on a small tropical evergreen tree, Theobroma cacao, in South America which is cultivated for making chocolate, cocoa, and cocoa butter.
Pure cacao is a great food source of magnesium.
Powdered cacao is high up on the antioxidant ORAC scale. Our above bar of cacao contains 95 mg of magnesium, per ounce or 29 grams, as well as natural antioxidants. Thus, for better health, pure cacao should be a healthy part of what you snack on each week.
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