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Top 10 Health Secrets of Dark Chocolate
Do you have a sweet tooth for dark chocolate? Go ahead and indulge yourself in the goodness and sweetness of this food product. This amazing food can provide you with numerous health benefits, while leaving a sweet taste in your mouth. Some of its benefiting qualities are shared over here as well:
10. Lowers blood pressure:
The consumption of dark chocolate is known to lower blood pressure levels among individuals. After a certain age, its consumption in limited quantity improves blood flow while keeping blood pressure levels in the norm. In order to reap benefits from this amazing food at fullest, people need to be very conscious about the amount they eat as over consumption may do more harm than good and there are chances that you consume unwanted calories.
9. Contributes to keeping the heart healthy:
According to one of the research that has been conducted recently, claims that dark chocolate possesses many cardiovascular benefits. This research encompasses 9 years of Swedish study including 31,000 women, deriving the results that women are found with less risk of heart failure after eating 1 or 2 servings of dark chocolate every week.
8. Creates Happier Babies
A Finnish study found that babies born to mothers, who consumed dark chocolates during their pregnancies, were happier and smiled a lot than those that did not. So, it is better to use chocolate during pregnancy rather than giving pacifiers to your the annoying and loud babies after birth. It also relieves stress in mothers-to-be.
7. Prevents from Type 2 diabetes:
Another huge benefit of consuming this super food is the prevention from Type 2 diabetes. This is due to flavanols, an antioxidant, found in dark chocolate that has the ability in reducing insulin resistance in human body. Insulin sensitivity is also controlled by flavanols that increases the production of nitric oxide.
6. Provides relieve in stressful conditions:
According to the results of the research carried out by UC San Diego researchers, if an individual consume about 1.4 ounces of dark chocolate on daily basis for a period of two weeks then he/she will witness a drastic change in their stress level. This happens because this super food has the potential to provide relief to different types of stress hormones including catecholamines (the fight-or-flight hormone) and cortisol (the stress hormone).
5. Helps relief cough symptoms:
Eating chocolate could be more effective than sucking a lozenge at treating coughs, argue doctors at the Imperial College London. The doctors investigated whether the compound could prevent artificially-provoked coughs in ten healthy non-smokers. Theobromine (present in dark chocolate) was more effective in treating the cough than codeine, which is often used in cough medicines, or a ‘dummy’ treatment.
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