{"id":23644,"date":"2016-12-20T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23644"},"modified":"2016-12-20T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T00:09:08","slug":"chocolate-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/chocolate-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution: Eat More Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/kocko.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chocolate is GOOD for you! Lauded for its tremendous antioxidant potential, the higher the cocoa content (and less sugar), the more health benefits there are.\u00a0Potential benefits of eating chocolate may include: Lowering cholesterol levels, preventing cognitive decline\u00a0and reducing the risk of cardiovascular problems. Chocolate contains ingredients that inhibit the natural breakdown of anandamide in the brain, a feel-good thing. Chocolate cravings have something to do with serotonin, a brain chemical that makes us feel relaxed. If chocolate is not on your holiday menu, here are some upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-chocolate-festivals.html\">chocolate experiences throughout 2017<\/a> to make you feel happy!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indulge LA Janaury 8, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento Chocolate Salon January 28, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Redding &#8211; Turtle Bay Wine &amp; Chocolate After Dark February 2, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Long Beach &#8211; Belmont Shore Chocolate Festival February 4, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Temecula- Pechanga Chocolate &amp; Wine Festival\u00a0 February 10-11, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Lodi Wine &amp; Chocolate Festival February 11 &amp; 12, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Escondido For the Love of Chocolate Festival February 11, 2017<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco Chocolate Salon March 18, 2017<\/li>\n<li>And &#8211; there&#8217;s more to come!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate is GOOD for you! Lauded for its tremendous antioxidant potential, the higher the cocoa content (and less sugar), the more health benefits there are.\u00a0Potential benefits of eating chocolate may include: Lowering cholesterol levels, preventing cognitive decline\u00a0and reducing the risk of cardiovascular problems. Chocolate contains ingredients that inhibit the natural breakdown of anandamide in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}