{"id":357009,"date":"2025-12-19T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357009\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:15:08","slug":"luke-oneill-why-eating-choclate-is-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357009\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke O&#8217;Neill: Why eating choclate is good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eating dark chocolate is good for your health, Luke O\u2019Neill has confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For most people, chocolate is a guilty pleasure to be eaten only as an occasional treat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But now the Trinity Professor has confirmed that there\u2019s no need to feel guilty about eating the dark variety because of the health benefits that come with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you eat 45 grams of dark chocolate a day, it decreases your risk of heart attack and decreases blood pressure,\u201d Professor O\u2019Neill told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstalk.com\/shows\/pat-kenny-show-234857\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Pat Kenny Show<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dark chocolate is higher in cocoa solids, they\u2019re called, and that\u2019s the bit of the chocolate that\u2019s good for you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey ferment it and they roast it and you end up with the solids and then the butter &#8211; the butter is full of fat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe solids is the good part and that\u2019s more bitter; the dark chocolate is richer in those solids.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Professor O\u2019Neill continued that the evidence for this theory is convincing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s things called flabinols that are in the dark part, the solids part and that\u2019s the bit that\u2019s lowering blood pressure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s really good evidence for this now\u2026 [Flavonoids] protect your heart and they\u2019re antioxidants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, they mop up oxygen radicals in your body which are being made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd oxygen can be toxic at times &#8211; and that\u2019s very rich in the dark chocolates.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Main image: Luke O&#8217;Neill and dark choclate. Pictures by: Newstalk and Alamy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eating dark chocolate is good for your health, Luke O\u2019Neill has confirmed.\u00a0 For most people, chocolate is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[97,269],"class_list":{"0":"post-357009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}