| | | - - | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CHOCOLATE: | | | FOOD OF THE GODS! | | | | | | | Never name was more appropriated! The word cocoa (subject before and only with which the chocolate is manufactured), derives from the Greek and means: food of the dèis; in effects the solo to pronounce the word chocolate evokes perfumes and paradisiacal tastes. But who must thank for the discovery of this jewel food? To find the first traces of this food we must go up again to the time of the Mayas. | | | |  | Near that population, however, the chocolate was not a delicious tablet, on the contrary a bitter drink, whose name was xocolatl; and for centuries the chocolate was consumed only in the form of drink, also after the discovery from the explorers of Central America and the consecutive export of the seeds of cocoa in Europe. Just in Europe, to the chocolate therapeutic quality will be recognized and it will find one use of his in the medicine (to think well of us, also today day we use him/it as I make up for against the bad humor). | | | | | | | | All it takes is trying to taste to understand him/it because the chocolate is defined 'The Food of the gods.' And' difficult to believe that this delicious mixture of butter of cocoa, sugar and milk, that it loosens him in mouth and it stimulates so many pleasant feelings can also be good for our organism. New searches have shown that, contrarily to the common conviction that all of this that is good has somehow to hurt, the chocolate is potentially a true cocktail of protective substances. 
| | | | In the cocoa they are present some antioxidants that practice positive effects on the organism contributing to avoid the oxidation of the cholesterol a trial that can bring to the block of the arteries and the reduction of the blood flow. Some polifenolis known as catechine, that is the principal components of the tea, has been in relief both in the melting chocolate and in the chocolate to the milk and him it believes that can contribute to the prevention of the cardiovascular illnesses, strengthening the system immunitario and lowering the risk of some types of tumor. A study done above more than 6000 men and women has shown that the chocolate can furnish up to the 20 percent of the total catechines assumibili through the feeding. You/he/she is discussed for a long time on the risk that foods rich in saturated fats can increase the levels of cholesterol in the blood. Currently it is known that not all the saturated fats they are equally harmful and some as the sour stearico (what it represents around a bystander of the present fat in the chocolate), have a neutral effect on the cholesterol in the blood. The amazing effects of the chocolate on the composition of the blood don't limit him to the fats and the cholesterol. The chocolate, seen often how a food that immediately furnishes available sugar to the organism, relatively introduces of fact an index glicemico low this it means that, after having ingested some chocolate, the sugar in the blood raises him in regular way, quickly that after the consumption of some drinks and base foods of sugar or digestible starch easily. The common opinion according to which to consume chocolate would bring to a series of raisings and lowering of the levels of sugars doesn't found him on done concrete rather the consumption of chocolate you/he/she can be enjoyed, although occasionally, also from people diabetes affette. The misunderstandings on the effects of the chocolate don't limit him to its effects on the sugar in the blood: the clinical search has shown that the chocolate doesn't cause acne or problems to the skin as some they held, there are no tests that you provoke migraine or that is one of the principal causes of the damage of the teeth, rather the scientists have discovered as the present tannins in the cocoa helps to prevent the caries, probably reducing the growth of the plate. Besides it seems, that the present proteins in the chocolate to the milk protect from the caries, while he believes that the sour ossalico that is found in the chocolate practices a similar effect lowering the acids production. | | | |  | | The greatest part of the people nevertheless it arranges on a fact: once that the chocolate is tasted it is difficult to stop eating him/it. There are theories in base to which this desire would physiologically be due to active substances that you/they are found in the chocolate. You thinks, for instance, that the feniletilamina imitates the hormone that is released when you/he/she is fallen in love, while the anadamidis tie him to the same receptors of the brain to which marijuana ties him. The chocolate stimulates besides the release of the endorphins the natural tranquilizers of the organism. | | | | Of fact, however, none of these substances seems to be present in enough quantity to produce real effects. The desire to consume this paradisiacal food is simply due to the so many feelings that it provokes and to the facility with which satisfaction of it can be drawn. When consumed with moderation, the chocolate not only furnishes nourishing and to like but as part of a healthy and balanced feeding can be also considered. To this point, after you will have discovered all the secrets on the chocolate, he/she won't be you other to be done what.... to taste the food of the dèis. Good bellyful! | | | | | | |
