Who loves chocolate, who swears by the sweet, salt and savory taste, ladies who reserve it for special occasions, bad days, bad breakups and dessert, and ladies who just want to eat more chocolate: listen up because your day is about to get a whole lot sweeter.
Dark chocolate prevents diabetes;
A report that appeared in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry found that because eating dark chocolate actually means you’re eating less, you’re naturally preventing your risk of getting type-2 diabetes.
Led by Andrew P. Neilson, researchers identified that cocoa (the most basic ingredient in chocolate) is one of the richest in flavanol.
In order to prove it, they fed groups of mice according to different diets. They found that the mice who were fed dark chocolate were able to keep their weight down because compounds like oligomeric procyanidins (PCs), which works as an antioxidant, appear in dark chocolate.
Dark chocolate will make you thinner;
In a 2008 study performed at the University of Copenhagen, researchers part of the Faculty of Life Sciences found that chowing down on dark chocolate fills you up much faster than snacking on milk chocolate, which means you’ll feel satisfied much faster and eat way less of it. This, by default, keeps you looking and feeling thin and trim no matter what time of year or month it is.
To confirm their hypothesis, researchers asked guys to fast for 12 hours before the chocolate-eating experiment began. One group was given milk chocolate and the other, dark.
When the two groups were offered 100g of chocolate, everybody went to town. Fast forward to two hours later, the 16 men involved in the study were offered pizza (and who turns down pizza? No one, that’s who).
Turns out that the men in the dark chocolate group ate 15 percent less pizza than their milk chocolate counterparts.
Dark chocolate keeps your emotional stress down;
Which basically means you can bank on never having to worry about crying at the office, so long as you’ve got a stick of dark within arm’s reach.
A 2009 clinical trial published in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research put the "chocolate cure" to task to determine whether or not there was any benefit to snacking on dark chocolate when you’re sad.
Dark chocolate can prevent sunburns;
Want to spend more time in the sun without turning a rosy shade of lobster red? Though it seems counterproductive (who wants to eat chocolate before stripping down and getting into a bathing suit?), eating chocolate in preparation for a day at the beach is basically the best thing for your skin.
Performed in 2009, the study, published in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, found that dark chocolate offers "significant protection against harmful UV effects of the sun," which basically means that dark chocolate prevents sunburn, premature aging and even proactively prevents skin cancer.
The London-based researchers noted that people who ate 20 grams of dark chocolate up to 12 weeks in advance were able to stay in the sun for twice as long as their counterparts without getting burned.
Dark chocolate keeps your blood pumping ;
Just so we’re clear, you need blood to live. In order to live, blood needs to flow freely. In order for blood to flow freely, it can’t be held back by buildup in your arteries. So if you want to live and look good, you need to eat dark chocolate.
A study released just ahead of Valentine’s Day at Loyola Medicine earlier this year found that dark chocolate with a cocoa content of 70 percent prevents plaque buildup in your arteries because it’s super rich in flavoniods. And when your blood is pumpin’ freely, we can all agree that’s an attractive thing..
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