Eating chocolates can help you lose weight

Are you a chocolate lover? Cannot give up eating it? Weary of thinking that you would gain weight? Here is the good news that eating chocolates would help you lose extra weight. Yes, it is true.

Eating chocolates can lose weight

But the chocolate which we are talking about is not milk chocolates but dark chocolates. Now one would want to know the difference and how dark chocolates help us in reducing weight.

Both the milk and dark chocolates contain cocoa content. The milk chocolates have cocoa content solids up to 10% which are diluted by milk and given a sweet taste as cocoa is bitter in taste. The dark chocolates don’t have milk in it but the cocoa content is more than 20%. The dark chocolates which have cocoa content more than 70% are the ones which help in losing weight.

Dark chocolates of good quality have antioxidant epicatechin which helps in increasing the rate at which the fat in the body is burnt and also helps in suppressing the appetite. These two are the main factors which are needed in reducing weight. The cocoa present in the dark chocolates has a high level of an alkaloid called Theobromine which increases the energy and muscle stimulation and reduces the blood pressure by widening the blood vessels. Some researchers have also found that cocoa contains a compound which helps in producing mood-altering brain chemicals thereby decreasing the depression risk.

How many intakes one should take of chocolates to lose weight?

You should eat at least 40grams of dark chocolates containing 70% above of cocoa content for eight weeks. It should not be consumed in one sitting but rather spread it out over the whole day.

Benefits:

Increased level in energy.

Reduced cravings for sweet products.

Less desire to take snacks between meals.

Mood will be good and will feel well.

Weight loss of up to 20 pounds.

Improved blood pressure.

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Note: This article is based on the studies carried out by the National Institute of Health; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and the UC San Diego General Clinical Research Center.