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Peggy Pico reporting Dark, milk, with nuts or without, there's few temptations sweeter than chocolate.
It's understandable we'd be skeptical about a French made diet chocolate that is suppose to shed unwanted pounds. So we decided to find out if a new tasty treat really trims the fat.
With a young son who plays tennis and a daughter that pays close attention, it's understandable why their mother, fitness instructor Julie Manriquez was skeptical of Slim-Delice-- a new so called diet chocolate made in France and now sold in the US.
Julie Manriquez/ Chocolate Dieter "The chocolate is good -- It taste like any dark chocolate."
Helen Krasovic/ Sales Director, Slim Delices: "It's a delicious chocolate- 90% dark cocoa but with a slimming formula that makes you loose weight."
The makers of "Slim Delice" claim four natural plant extracts when combined help you lose weight.
Helen Krasovic/ Sales Director, Slim Delices: "It has guarno, chickering, inilan and green tea and artichoke powder."
Krasovic, sales director for Slim-Delice says without otherwise changing your diet or increasing exercise, eat three squares of this chocolate a day, and lose between 2 and four pounds a month.
Peggy Pico/Reporting: "Eating chocolate to lose weight--sounds too good to be true? Some dietitians say it is."
Danielle Lipparelli, R.D./ Dietitian: "I'm a little skeptical because chocolate tends to have alot of not so beneficial ingredients you're fighting a lot of sugar and a lot of high saturated fats."
Helen Krasovic/ Sales Director, Slim Delices "We are a dietary supplement were not a chocolate- we're not a snack."
A candy supplement-- that convinced Julie she could eat chocolate and still drop nine pounds in two months.
Julie Manriquez/ Chocolate Dieter: "You definitely have to have the discipline like anything else in moderation... what's nice is when you do have something like that you have the opportunity to make that choice a little bit healthier."
A chocolate choice, she recommends chewing on a little at a time.
Julie Manriquez/ Chocolate Dieter: "No, you can't just eat all of the chocolate in one sitting- (laughs):
You can buy slim at selected spas, but the chocolate isn't cheap. If you stick to the plan-- of three pieces a day... one month's supply will cost you about 80 dollars.
