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10 Health Benefits Of Eating Dark Chocolate
By: Priyanka Maheshwari Tue, 02 Feb 2021 3:13:41
Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate is still not realy known well around the world, although many research about this great snack. Dark chocolate is a variety of chocolate you may easily find it at your surrounding market, or any mini shop.
In fact, you can find it as raw materials directly from its farmers or any packaged products made of it, although the former choice would require much effort as not every area has chocolate as its own farming commodity.
As the name implied, naming of dark chocolate describes its color which is dark or some people call it, black. It makes big sense why dark chocolate has its color dark because it is pure and uncontaminated by other essences such as milk, sugar, cream, cheese etc.
Therefore, its taste is also quiet bitter especially when compared to chocolate combined with sugar or sweetener you can find it easily at your surrounding.
If you ever heard about the health benefits of chocolate, then consuming dark chocolate is be far more beneficial for your health. The main reason is just simple, i.e. because dark chocolate is more natural and original so you can get the advantage and health benefits at maximum in comparison to general chocolate contaminated much by other essences.
Some of you who never know about health benefits of chocolate may assume that chocolate is all about appetite, rich taste and having fun or special snack for quality time. Therefore, you must be surprised to know that besides its delicious taste, health benefits of chocolate are also many and could not be ignored.
# Improving body’s immune
Immune system is one of the cornerstones of body health which would greatly affect the body itself. If it is well kept, the body will be healthy as any disease threat could be paralyzed and all the body organs work well. At opposite, when the immune system is weak or not good, the body would be like a magnet for any disease so the person would be sick or get illness in any easy way.
The big importance of immune system make people try hard to keep it as far as possible by doing any possible way. Besides taking regular exercise and having a healthy life style, being selective and smart in choosing and consuming meal or snack is the other way to keep the immune system work well.
# Conducting A Better Body Metabolism
To have a good metabolism and every body organ works well, a body requires various types of essence such as magnesium, iron, potassium, calcium and copper. Believe it or not, all those essences are altogether found at the dark chocolate.
It also means that just by consuming the dark chocolate, you can fulfill all of what your body needs in only one and simple way. Those essences containing at the dark chocolate are also good for growth process so it would be very nice of you to invite your children consuming it.
# Smoothing the blood stream
The smooth blood stream is one of main keys of good metabolism as well as a healthy body. When the blood which brings oxygen can run smoothly and reach every detail of a man’s body through its vessel, he will get the best health as every organ works well and properly. Therefore, most of types of body illness come from the disturbance at the blood especially the blood stream.
Consuming the dark chocolate would be very helpful for you if you would like to keep your blood stream stable. It contains flavanol essence which can impulse artery layer to produce nitrites oxide.
# Caring the Heart and Keep It Healthy
Still closely related to the blood stream, dark chocolate is also good for heart as it facilitates the blood stream by maximizing the function of blood vessel. As generally known, heart is an organ which pumps the blood and the blood vessel would then deliver it to every side and corner of body. Therefore, when the blood vessel works well, the heart would do so and there would no stream blocking or blood vessel blocking.
This happens because the blood pumped would not randomly return to the heart as the blood vessel distributes is well and properly. In addition to it, dark chocolate also has magnesium functioning to support the ‘task’ of heart to pump the blood while essence iron enables blood to receive oxygen faster.
# Avoiding Anemia and Lowering the Low Blood Pressure
One of essences contained at dark chocolate is iron which is good for curing as well as avoiding anemia or low blood pressure. Iron functions well in increasing the production of thrombosis so that for those who suffer anemia, consuming the dark chocolate would be a preferable treatment as the dark chocolate also offers delicious taste.
From this information, you can conclude that for anemia and low blood pressure, dark chocolate could be your one for all solution. Therefore, you may also consider to enlist it as one of your must-consumed menu.
# Preventing and Curing Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease happens because of excessive volume of sugar or glucose at the blood. Some types of food rich with cholesterol essence are considered as main causes of diabetes as it can heighten the sugar level at the blood and chocolate is one of them. However, it does not apply to dark chocolate as dark chocolate is relatively free from other materials such as sugar, colorant or sweeter.
It only has a very small amount of glicemic so that you do not need to worry about the sugar or glucose level of your blood because it would not effect to your sugar or glucose level of the blood. Even, it can prevent you suffered by diabetes, particularly diabetes type II.
# Protecting the Skin
Rich with antioxidant essence, routine consumption of dark chocolate gives extra protection to the skin particularly from ultraviolet ray. Therefore, if you like to go out at the daylight and do not want your skin dark or dry, consuming dark chocolate would be a good idea.
In addition to it, the antioxidant also make the blood stream smooth to the skin so your skin is nourished from both the inside and outside. At the inside it is nurtured by enough and stable blood stream, at the outside it is protected from the danger of the sun light, ultraviolet, pollutant and other dangerous essences.
# Avoiding Cancer
One of the most common causes of cancer is free-radical contamination. Dark chocolate is rich of antioxidant which can be very helpful in blocking free radical to contaminate the body so that the damage of cell oxidation could be prevented.
Therefore, you do not need to worry if your surrounding is full of free-radical because by consuming rich antioxidant foods, including dark chocolate, your body would strengthen its own immune system and prevent any disease including cancer.
# Brightening the Skin
Anti aging function as the good impact of dark chocolate consumption particularly occurs in brightening the skin. It is a real and direct impact of the smooth blood stream to all parts of body including the skin. As occurring to other parts of body, smooth blood stream would make the organ healthy and work well even better.
In the case of skin, the smooth stream of blood could fulfill the need so the skin would be brighter even softer. More specifically, the smooth blood stream would prevent any aging symptom such as wrinkle or furrow which would be very disturbing for most of people.
# Loosing Weight
Dark chocolate has rich essence of fiber that it can satisfy the hunger through delicious and nice taste. Therefore, consuming the dark chocolate is good for those who do a diet program because it can be effective to loose the weight. Feeling full would avoid the dieter to eat his/her meal or have a snack so they would be able to do diet program well by minimizing the portion and intensity of meal particularly food tasting sweet, salty or greasy.
Therefore, if you are in a diet program and obsessive to loose your weight, dark chocolate could be your alternative menu as you can cook it in various ways and also safe for your health while making your diet program successful.