From Andrea Metcalf - Chocolate doesn't have to derail your diet
Nov-29-2011

For chocolate lovers trying to drop a few pounds, new research suggests that it's still possible to lose weight while indulging your sweet tooth every day.
Overweight and obese women who added a bit of chocolate or other sweets on top of a healthy diet plan lost about 11 pounds over four months, on average.
The study was funded by Hershey's, which provided its own candy for snacks, and two of the study authors are company employees.
"Women think about going on a diet and think they have to deprive themselves of their favorite foods, but really that's not the case if you incorporate them in a portion-controlled way," said Kathryn Piehowski, who conducted the research while at Pennsylvania State University in University Park.
An outside researcher cautioned that the study had no "control" group of women who didn't eat a sweet snack, so it's impossible to know how much weight those who abstained from sweets, or ate other snacks, would have lost.
"Chocolate ... is a highly-desired food," said Debra Keast, from Food & Nutrition Database Research, Inc in Okemos, Michigan. But, she added, "I really don't think that it would be as effective as some other type of snack" for weight loss.
Snacks that also pack some fiber and protein, she said, would probably help women stay full until their next meal better than candy. For the new study, Piehowski and her colleagues tracked the weight loss of 33 overweight and obese women on a reduced-calorie diet.

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