Everyone thinks that chocolate is a "double-height" food, but what everyone doesn't know is correct. Eating chocolate can lose weight. For example, "dark chocolate" has low fat content, but the calorie content can meet the daily intake of the body. Therefore, eating dark chocolate correctly can reduce the risk of illness.

Although chocolate contains a lot of saturated fat, the saturated fat in chocolate will not raise your cholesterol level. In the past few years, researchers have found that chocolate contains steroids, which are healthy ingredients in green tea and red wine. Now many studies show that dark chocolate is particularly beneficial to people's health. The results showed that the antioxidant activity of volunteers who ate dark chocolate increased, while the antioxidant activity of people who ate milk chocolate or ate dark chocolate and drank milk fluctuated at the original level. This shows that milk may affect the absorption of steroids in chocolate. Dark chocolate can also lower blood pressure. Last summer, two groups of German researchers published a short research report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A group of researchers compared the effects of dark chocolate and white chocolate. White chocolate is made of cocoa butter, not cocoa. Let's not argue about whether white chocolate is a misnomer, because it doesn't contain cocoa at all. Subjects ate a small piece of chocolate every day for two weeks. After the experiment, it was found that the systolic blood pressure (high pressure) of people who ate dark chocolate was 5. 1 minute lower than that of people who ate white chocolate. Another group of German researchers found that cocoa drinks can increase the activity of nitric oxide and dilate blood vessels.

Second, what is the effect and function of dark chocolate?

1, which makes people think more sharply.

There is a main ingredient in dark chocolate, called flavanol, which can accelerate the blood flow in some areas of the brain, thus greatly improving brain power and making people more agile and energetic in a short time.

Therefore, when we feel tired and slow in work or study, we might as well eat a piece of dark chocolate, which not only satisfies the taste buds, but also improves our brain power.

2, delay aging

Dark chocolate contains natural antioxidants. Eating dark chocolate regularly can transfer free radicals and improve blood circulation. Experiments show that old people who often eat dark chocolate live longer than those who don't.

Eating dark chocolate can not only protect the body from oxidation, but also make the skin look younger. The researchers conducted an investigation. After eating dark chocolate for three months, the skin of these respondents has stronger water retention ability, stronger anti-ultraviolet ability and significantly reduced pigmentation than others.

Step 3 lose weight

Can chocolate lose weight? For a long time, people think that chocolate is the chief culprit of obesity, and it is also a food that dieters dare not avoid. Ordinary chocolate is indeed high in fat and not suitable for dieters, but dark chocolate is different.

Dark chocolate also contains dietary fiber, vitamins and trace elements. It can be said that it is not only a snack, but also a nutritious food. It does contain fat, but it is not as high as people think, and a large part of it is unsaturated fat, so it will not be easily converted into body fat.

In addition, dark chocolate also contains phenylethylamine, which can reduce appetite very well, thus reducing the amount of food eaten that day, and achieving a balance of calories to a certain extent. Dark chocolate will also burn body fat during digestion and absorption. Therefore, as long as you control a certain amount every day, eating dark chocolate can completely achieve the purpose of losing weight.

Step 4 lower blood pressure

Patients with hypertension should pay attention to reducing the intake of high-sugar and high-fat foods in their diet, so we emphasize that in order to lower blood pressure, ordinary chocolate should be kept away as much as possible and low-sugar dark chocolate should be chosen. Even, German scientists believe that its blood pressure lowering ability is stronger than that of green tea.

Another study shows that dark chocolate can not only lower blood pressure, but also enhance insulin sensitivity. In other words, moderate consumption of dark chocolate can strengthen the metabolism of sugar in the body and help prevent diabetes.

An Italian researcher said that flavonoids in dark chocolate are very beneficial to the heart and blood circulation, which is the main reason why dark chocolate can lower blood pressure.