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Chocolate in the morning helps women lose weight

09.04.2022

Chocolate is a product that has millions of fans around the world. The composition of sweets loved by many includes cocoa butter and grated cocoa, on which both health benefits and harms depend.

It is difficult to count all the useful properties of chocolate. Among the main ones - it is able to increase the level of emotional state, reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and the amount of harmful free radicals in human blood.

However, we must not forget that the uncontrolled eating of cocoa sweets will have the opposite effect on health. The result can be a rash, and in other cases, a favorite treat can cause tachycardia and increase blood pressure. Of course, the dosage is of great importance: if you consume chocolate in large portions (more than 100 g per day), then all the beneficial properties of sweets can disappear in an instant, causing great harm to the human body.

Postmenopausal women who eat a small amount of chocolate at breakfast every day find it easier and faster to lose weight, according to a study from Harvard Medical School and the Spanish University of Murcia.

The experiment lasted exactly two weeks. Voluntary participants in the study were three groups of 19 postmenopausal women. Women from the first group ate foods typical for many in Spain, representatives of the second group received approximately 100 grams of milk chocolate within an hour after waking up, and participants in the experiment from the third group ate chocolate in the same dosage, only an hour before bedtime.

In women who ate chocolate in the morning, the weight did not change, but the composition of the intestinal microbiota and other indicators improved. They also recorded a decrease in waist and glucose levels. And the number of calories consumed decreased by 16%.

For the better, the indicators of those who ate chocolate in the afternoon also changed. The women in this group had an average increase in physical activity the next day by 6,9%, as well as a decrease in their appetite and cravings for sweets.

The main conclusion reached by scientists during the experiment was that women who ate a 100-gram chocolate bar every day did not gain weight. This debunks the main myth that chocolate is the enemy of a beautiful figure.

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