The good news: scientists advise to eat chocolate every day. The bad news: this chocolate doctors believe only the bitter. The more cocoa and the less sugar, the more health benefits.
1. Chocolate causes the brain to work
This purpose, there are several nutrients: olivenol improve blood flow, fenilalanin memory, and theobromine and caffeine increase efficiency. Slice of black chocolate helps in the work and study even better than a Cup of coffee.
2. It has more antioxidants than green tea and apples
Antioxidants fight free radicals. These particles provoke the development of cancer, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, cataracts, and about 50 serious diseases.
3. This is one of the best aphrodisiacs for women
Say, chocolate always carried with him Casanova. Actually, even the very existence of the hero-lover makes historians doubt. So, true or not, we will probably never know.
But it is known that the lovers of chocolate , the level of sexual desire and satisfaction from sex is higher than those who prefer other sweets – this is the conclusion reached by scientists from Milan. The fact that a familiar phenylalanine not only improves memory, but also provokes the production of endorphins. Happy woman – a passionate woman.
4. Chocolate improves mood
Fenilalanina in addition, cocoa beans contain a variety of substances, reduces stress and improves mood. And chocolate contains cannabinoids – these substances act as marijuana. But in order to achieve a visible effect will have to eat no less than 55 tiles.
5. And struggling with the diseases of the heart and blood vessels
The researchers assessed food 55 thousand people aged 50 to 64 years and found that those who regularly eat 30 grams of chocolate per day, rarely suffer from arrhythmia, they have a 30% lower risk of heart disease and 25% less chance of strokes.
6. Chocolate can cure cough
Scientists have proved that chocolate suppresses cough even more effective than medication for colds. In the experiment, the participants were offered different remedies cough: codeine (the active ingredient in many cough medicines), theobromine (it is abundant in cocoa beans) and placebo. Participants were then exposed to capsaicin. This is a burning substance from chili peppers, causes coughing and sneezing. So the group taking the medicine with theobromine needed a third more capsaicin to start coughing.
Like any product, chocolate has contraindications:
- It is not for children, people with sleep disorders or high blood pressure.
- In any case, you can’t give chocolate to cats and dogs. In cocoa contains methylxanthine and theobromine – these substances are very toxic to animals, including death.
- Do not eat more than 30 grams of chocolate per day – or provoke insomnia, heartburn and high blood pressure.