Good News For Chocoholics!

By: Michael Douglas
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:17:40
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Crazy for chocolates but scared of eating it? No more compromises with your taste buds needed. Chocolate lovers can now enjoy their favourite treat subtracting the guilt of being unfair to their health. Surprised? But that's true!

Recent studies have revealed that chocolates are not only your taste bud's favourite but a supporter of good health too. In fact this brown wonder has far more advantages than you can smell and taste.

In good measures, chocolate can be considered as a healthy food. So let me introduce you to the better half of your chocolate.

Chocolates are an instant energy boosters. They are a good combo of nutrients, proteins as well as vitamins. No wonder this makes chocolate a must for ration packs in the army, for trampers/hikers, mountain climbers. Besides the nutritional constituents chocolates also contain Flavonals. Flavonals are antioxidants, also present in apples, onions, peanuts, cranberries and red wine. In fact a 50mg bar of dark chocolate is equivalent to six apples, two glasses of wine and seven onions in its flavonoid content.

It's also been believed that chocolates also posses anti clotting effect in same measures as an aspirin. Thus chocolates assists in reducing the risk of deep vein thrombosis when flying.

Another research brought forward the fact that eating chocolate laced with calcium reduces the absorption of chocolate derived fats by 13% and calories by 9% as compared to a naked bar. So if you are overweight, do lace your chocolate with calcium and then munch it.

If you like the pleasant smell of this wonder here is a better reason for you to sniff it. It has been proved that even sniffing a chocolate bars can boost up your immune system by raising the level of antibodies in the body. The addition of as little as 15 to 20 grams of dark chocolate in the daily diet has been shown to provide the necessary benefits.

Have you ever wondered, why love strucked people keep exchanging chocolates? Chocolates contain some natural substances that help in fighting against heart diseases and other related circulatory disorders. Hmmmmm.... So probably the reason is to keep their exchanged hearts safe!

Another healthy component of this delicacy is theobromine. It helps you to cure cough without any side effect of drowsiness as in the case of ceodeine. The best part of your favourite chocolate bar is its tryptophan content. Tryptophan, an essential amino acid, its consumption triggers the release of serotonin, a feel good neurotransmitter, in the brain that stimulate the central nervous system and makes you feel happy. The fat boosts other 'feel good' brain chemicals called endorphins and may have the same effect as marijuana.

Chocolates also generates the feeling of attraction and raises your excitment level by the activity of another neurotransmitter, phenylethylamine which acts on the brain's pleasure centre. No wonder chocolates are love birds favourite!

Your chocolate cravings must have reached height by now, so go ahead and grab your today's health dose. But do remember, some wise men have said that excess of anything is bad.

Michael Douglas, being an health expert offers valuable tips and articles on health and fitness. Visit his website at http://www.time4tips.com/ to know more about him and his amazing work in healthcare industry. Here you can also find a bulk of beauty, makeup tips, information and homemade remedies to make you even more beautiful and stylish.

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