{"id":377730,"date":"2026-04-02T05:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/377730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:12:08","slug":"six-things-chocolate-does-to-your-body-and-they-arent-all-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/377730\/","title":{"rendered":"Six things chocolate does to your body \u2013 and they aren\u2019t all bad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nLife is short so you should enjoy your Easter eggs. Here are some facts that may inform your feasting\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Life is too short \u2013 chocolate in moderation is OK. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/focus.independent.ie\/thumbor\/euB3fqU3_YAdyOzUrierUu2FTHU=\/0x0:3238x2158\/960x640\/prod-mh-ireland\/721c0131-c949-48c6-954d-d0aa21a5647c\/81814219-aca5-4a6f-9fdd-afede4b9d84e\/721c0131-c949-48c6-954d-d0aa21a5647c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Life is too short \u2013 chocolate in moderation is OK. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Before you reach for another piece of chocolate this Easter, it\u2019s worth considering the effect it has on the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We tend to associate chocolate with empty calories and weight gain \u2013 but small quantities of chocolate with a high cocoa content can actually be good for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life is short so you should enjoy your Easter eggs. Here are some facts that may inform your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[109388,117984,103,61,60,446],"class_list":["post-377730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-easter","tag-erin-mccafferty","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}