Chocolates Are Tempting But Is It Healthy To Eat?
By fernanddizon at 24 March, 2009
A lot of of us love to eat chocolates and contrary to what other says that its just for kids well even some adults find chocolates as something really hard to resist. Maybe it’s for the simple that it really taste so good and the moment it melts on someone’s mouth it truly so enticing to have another bite of it. On the other hand, there is more multifaceted answer on how our body act in response to it.
Don’t you know that chocolates is a stimulant to our brain? It has some chemical contents that makes it irresistable not only because it gives pleasure to our taste buds. It can stir up one’s mood or should I say it changes our mood swings into something good. Now I wonder why there are some people who take a crunch into it whenever they’re fuming mad, distress and it even ease you up when you feel a bit down in the dumps.
Furthermore, in some studies shows that since chocolates are made out of cocoa which are good source of clacium, magnesium, minerals, sulphur, iron, zinc and many others. This makes chocolates to have some nutritional value and contents like an antioxidants that provides anti-aging and anti-inflammatory properties which can fight contagion and other foreign bodies which will make an individual less prone to viruses or some sort of illness. Not only that it’s believed to be good for the heart since it’s rich of bioflavonoid that endow the heart with good flow of the blood and it averts the blood platelets to stick together making chocolate heart friendly.
It was indeed that it promotes good mood or feeling while having a sinful bite of it. Do you know why is that gives someone some sort of high? Well cocoa also contain an amino acid known as Tryptophan a and the pleasurable compound called serotonin a neurotransmitter that is rich in fats that set off a release of serotonin in the brain, making a chocoholic to feel very happy. No wonder that most of the girls who are so sentive in nature loves to eat it once they’re feeling blue but some of them are scare to eat even a single bite of it. Is chocolate really addicting or gratifying? Some claims that it has caffeine that somehow gives an unexpected addiction or was it because of the glucose that caused sugar rush or sugar withdrawal making it addicting in some ways. Well it would really depend on someone’s point of view.
Well we must not forget that anything that is in excess are really bad so its better to have the discipline to have anything in moderation. And just like any other food chocolates can backfire some bad effects on your health most often becomes visible as you age. It doesn’t mean that you have to deprive yourself from eating chocolates especially for those women who are figure conscious since dark chocolates can repress your desire for food, just make sure not overindulge with it though. Remember there are some chocolates that are really nutritional and sin-free to eat, all you have to do is just to have the right point of reference about it.
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