Chocolate lovers: Encyclopedia of the health benefits of chocolate and all the secrets about him and healthy recipes

You can enjoy chocolate, they help you a bit in the physical and mental health. Doctors recommend eating two squares of dark chocolate in the morning, Is this really good for your health to eat chocolate? Well, if you take the chocolate a day so that the day can not pass without eating a small handful of chocolate, which is extremely useful, as many of those who have to eat two cups of coffee in the morning. The next time you eat a piece of chocolate, do not feel too guilty. Despite the bad reputation that cause weight gain, there are a number of health benefits associated with eating chocolate
 

Benefits of Chocolate :

Over the years, with the chocolate a bad reputation due to the fat content, and acne, obesity, hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes. However, the recent discovery of bioactive phenolic compounds in cocoa can change this perception and to stimulate research on the effects of aging, oxidative stress and regulate blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, and praised the chocolate has antioxidant properties

Chocolate and your health:

The potential health benefits of chocolate due to the presence of antioxidant flavonoids. Chocolate comes from the cocoa plant, cocoa flavanols is in the (Other plants rich in flavanols include tea, grapes, grapefruit and wine.) Sounds simple enough, but some types of chocolate contains many flavonoids other.
So health eating chocolate # 1: chocolate, consisting of non-fat cocoa solids which contains many antioxidants

What about the fats in cocoa?

It is true that cocoa contains little saturated fat. But most important is the Alastyark acid - Studies have shown that it does not raise the levels as well as other saturated fatty acids of blood cholesterol. And unsaturated fatty acids and monounsaturated other in cocoa butter (which is desirable), in addition to the saturated fat palmitic acid other called. But here probably gets a great imbalance because chocolate products that may contain other types of added fats, such as "milk fat" or "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil" or coconut or palm oil (both naturally saturated oils), in addition to the "cocoa butter".
So the health of the consumption of chocolate # 2: If chocolate contains Alastair fatty ingredients cocoa butter, it may contain a lot of damage has saturated fat and more unsaturated fatty acids

A large oil contains cocoa butter spoon:

• 8 grams of saturated fat (4.5 grams, which is one of the acids Alastyark and 3.5 grams, which is the last one), and saturated fatty acids.
• 4.5 grams of monounsaturated fat.
• 0.4 grams of unsaturated fats (particularly omega-6 fatty acids).

The potential health benefits of chocolate:

To determine the health benefits of Chocolate needs to be more research and studies that confirm its effectiveness, but recent studies indicate that four of the potential dark chocolate and cocoa health benefits:

1. It may reduce the risk of heart attack:

A few squares of dark chocolate a day can reduce the risk of death from heart attack by 50% in some cases, says Diane Baker, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Researches have found that platelets in the blood coagulates greater in people who ate chocolate than in those who did not eat chocolate slowly

This is important because when platelets accumulate, can form a clot, and when plugged clot in the blood vessels, and can lead to a heart attack.

"The presence of flavanols in cocoa beans has a chemical effect is vital to reduce platelet clumping, similar to but much less than aspirin."

After a review of 136 scientific publications on chocolate and components and heart disease, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health summarized that the short-term studies indicate that cocoa and chocolate may reduce the risk of heart disease and blood vessels through:

• Lowering blood pressure
• • low oxidation LDL
•  • Anti-inflammatory actions

2. It reduces blood pressure and is working to increase insulin sensitivity:

Researchers in Italy to feed 15 people healthy 3 ounces of dark chocolate or the same amount of white chocolate - and that do not contain phytochemicals flavanols - for 15 days. The researchers found that insulin resistance (a risk factor for diabetes) were significantly reduced in those who ate dark chocolate systolic blood pressure (the first number in the reading of blood pressure), and is measured daily, was also lower in the group eating dark chocolate

3. It improves arterial blood flow:

Healthy men who ate cocoa-rich Bafilvnol we may see improvements in blood flow through the arteries. According to recent research, the researchers found that when healthy men consume rich cocoa flavanols, it improves the ability of blood vessels to relax significantly, and arterial blood flow is very important for the health of the heart and blood vessels.

4. It helps people who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome:

In a small study in England, was given 11/2 ounces of 85% of the cocoa dark chocolate for a group of adults who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome every day for eight weeks. In this study, which was submitted for publication, the participants reported feeling less tired after eating chocolate. Surprisingly, they are not reporting any increase in weight in the group who ate chocolate

 

Other benefits of chocolate:

Studies have already shown that chocolate contains a number of useful components. For example, resveratrol, a compound important in chocolate, is useful not only for the brain and nervous system, but in fact prolong life. Dark chocolate is also anti-inflammatory, it is useful to add to the diet, one of the most natural ways to reduce chronic inflammatory processes carried out by, and degenerative diseases of the most developed countries of the world.