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Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism? Uh Yes Please (+ Additional Benefits)

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I love chocolate so much I even have a bowl of chocolates in my office I eat from almost every day. Now I don’t recommend a bowl of easily accessible sugary treats to be within arms reach while you are trying to work, speaking from personal experience, ahem… but let’s gloss over that for now and instead focus on why eating chocolate in moderation may not be as bad for you as might assume! Most medical studies looking at the health properties of chocolate focus on dark chocolate (for good reason, as dark chocolate is a rich source […]

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Apr 14 2025

Just In Time For Easter: How To Eat Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’m really excited to tell you about today’s medical study, because I love chocolate so much and I particularly love milk chocolate. Most medical studies seem to focus on the healthy properties of dark chocolate (for good reason, as dark chocolate is a rich source of antioxidants) but I can’t seem to make myself fall in love with dark chocolate. But milk chocolate? Ummm yeah, can’t get enough. So this interesting medical study caught my eye. Published in the FASEB Journal, June 2021, researchers found that eating milk chocolate daily reduced the amount of calories that study

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Apr 11 2022

My Favorite Tips For Navigating Food & Drinks At Holiday Parties

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t all just about juggling the social commitments, traveling or picking out just the right gift. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, temptation everywhere, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the holidays. How to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts, and celebratory toasts galore? Today, I’ll tell you! It’s tricky to be around party foods… what if you want to stick

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Dec 23 2019

Eat This Today To Decrease Your Feelings Of Depression Tomorrow

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

My two favorite vices are: coffee and chocolate. Coffee gets me through my mornings and chocolate gets me through my evenings! I’ve blogged quite a bit about how coffee gets a bad wrap, since it actually does have some health benefits (I have all of these free health articles waiting for you, just click the links below to read them): Higher Coffee Intake, Lower Mortality Rate Coffee Protective Against MS Coffee Decreases Your Risk of Diabetes Caffeine â€” Best Study Aid Ever? Latest Study Reveals Heart Protective Properties of Caffeine Coffee to Prevent Dementia AND Reduce Skin Cancer? Yep…

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Sep 23 2019

Heart Health From Every Single Angle. I’ve Got You Covered.

Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

In honor of Valentines Day coming up this weekend, let’s focus on heart health! You can enhance the longevity of your heart from so many angles… medically, spiritually, energetically, and emotionally. Let’s talk about the energy behind our hearts and then talk specific things we can do to support long-term heart health! â€œYour task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.â€ — Rumi We have a heart to pump blood (and thereby deliver oxygen and nutrients) to every part of our

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Feb 8 2016

Prevent dementia AND reduce skin cancer? Yep. Here’s how…

Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

There is one thing you can drink every single day (multiple times a day) that has now been proven to not only prevent dementia but also reduce your skin cancer risk. It’s lovely. It’s warm. It’s invigorating. It’s coffee! Now, I know caffeinated coffee is addictive and I can say for sure I don’t feel my best when I am in a cycle of “needing” coffee to wake me up each morning. However, let me tell you about two recently released medical studies that show the encouraging results of drinking caffeinated coffee every day and you can decide how you

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Nov 12 2012

A 5 minute DIY supplement for brain health!

Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

It’s one of my best ideas ever, I believe. You see, coconut oil is just so fabbo it feeds your brain, is an extremely healthy source of much needed saturated fat, and supports your entire body inside and out. I use it head to toe… everything from a hot oil hair treatment to a moisturizer (find out more about all that in my Skin Happiness book right now!) to oil pulling to cooking and as a nutritional supplement to prevent Alzheimers. But look at this stuff. Sometimes… it’s hard to choke down. And then I had

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Oct 10 2012

Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism? Uh Yes Please (+ Additional Benefits)

Just In Time For Easter: How To Eat Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism

My Favorite Tips For Navigating Food & Drinks At Holiday Parties

Eat This Today To Decrease Your Feelings Of Depression Tomorrow

Heart Health From Every Single Angle. I’ve Got You Covered.

Prevent dementia AND reduce skin cancer? Yep. Here’s how…

A 5 minute DIY supplement for brain health!

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