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Walking is Better Than Chocolate

By Wendy Bumgardner, About.com

Updated February 07, 2005

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How Walking is Better than Chocolate
  • Burns Calories:Walking for an hour burns off one chocolate bar. An average chocolate bar has 350 calories.
  • Burns Fat:Chocolate contains fat. Walking burns fat. The fat-burning pace is to walk for a half hour to an hour at a moderate pace where your breathing is noticeable but you are able to speak in full sentences.
  • Doesn't melt:Although walking in the heat may make it seem like you are melting, that is just sweat. Chocolate actually does melt at body temperature. Chocolate melts into a gooey brown mass, whereas you sweat in colorless, non-staining liquid.
  • Getting Happy:Both chocolate and walking can release the brain's happy hormones - endorphins. But after walking you will have fewer regrets.
  • Hypo-allergenic:While many people claim a food allergy to chocolate, allergies to exercise and walking are very rare.

Moral: If you must have chocolate, enjoy it in moderation and walk it off!

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