Isn’t that a headline that every woman loves to read?  The combination of chocolate and pregnancy is certainly enough to get my attention!    Not that we really need an excuse to eat more chocolate, right?  Truly though, current research is showing the benefits of eating potent dark chocolate – it’s full of minerals and antioxidants – I know it’s bitter, but it does give a hit of that theobromine goodness.

The latest news about chocolate comes from Elizabeth Triche of Yale University and her colleagues. The researchers studied 2,291 pregnant women who gave birth between 1996 and 2000. They asked the moms-to-be how much chocolate they ate in their first and second trimesters and tested blood from their umbilical cords for theobromine, a telltale component of chocolate. Women who ate the most chocolate were about 70 percent less likely to develop preeclampsia than those who eat the least, the researchers report in this month’s issue of the journal Epidemiology.

Chocolate = Good, Preeclampsia = BAD.

Enough said.

So my dear pregnant friends, share this information with your husband when he next raises an eyebrow at your chocolate nibbling ways.

If you’re looking for some particularly sumptuous chocolaty treats, you can find some yummy dark chocolate for pregnancy at Intentional Chocolate, but you’ll have to wade through some new-agey sentiments to get there – please ignore those, chocolate will do it’s job just fine without being infused by ’spiritual energy’, thanks very much.