Friday, January 29, 2010

To eat chocolate provokes happiness

To eat chocolate when we are discouraged or sad will make us be sorry better. In a world as the current one where we always surprise the negative news there exists a recipe that in spite of not being definitive will help us to feel us more cheered up before so many adversities, eat chocolate.

To eat chocolate

The cocoa, it is so well-known and famous as it it is the caffeine, it is the component that gives him the base to the chocolate proceeding from the American continent, his fruits they have in his interior the called broad beans of the cocoa, which once extracted approximately 8 days allow to dry off and then they are toasted and pressed.

Finished all this process obtains the well-known cocoa butter on the one hand and for other a pasta. But, as it is known it is achieved the chocolate adding to the cocoa, fats of vegetable origin, sugar and milk.

Now then, to generate the wished effect is indispensable that the ill chocolate is a pure chocolate, and his cocoa concentration must be of at least 70 %.

The interesting thing is that one of the components of the chocolate is an essential amino acid called serotonina, which is a powerful neurotransmitter with such properties like being capable of generating feelings of pleasure and happiness.

On the other hand, the chocolate is good for our cardiovascular health because it contains acid oleico, equal to the one that we find in the olive oil, which is an important ally to resist the “bad cholesterol”.

To all these benefits there must join the fibre that contains the cocoa that is important and fundamental in all the diets, as well as the high concentrations of magnesium, potassium and phosphorus that are important to improve the fortitude, especially in the women in the days of the menstruation.

It is true, that as all the energy food, the chocolate puts on weight, but we will manage to enjoy his benefits and if we consume it of form adapted and our weight does not abuse he will not suffer alterations.