Dark Chocolate as a SuperFood is good for health?

It might be shocking if you will tell someone that chocolate is good enough for their health.
Today’s lifestyle is busy and stressful. In this situation it is necessary for people to maintain their diet which should be full of nutritious food. But unfortunately people are failing in doing so. So, people are advised to have superfoods.

One such superfood is chocolate. Chocolate was considered as the food of God by Egyptian. Chocolate being a healthy food doesn’t mean that you can consume any kind of it. It will benefit only when you are consuming it in right amount.

1. Which Type of chocolate to be consumed?

• Dark chocolate superfood is the most effective and healthy chocolate for you. It is made with finely roasted, fermented seeds of Theomobine cacao tree. This tree is evergreen and it’s native to tropical forests of America. Cacao seeds contain anti-oxidants, caffeine and cacao butter (natural oil) in it.
• A bar of dark chocolate superfood per day can give you all the essential antioxidants and phytochemical required for the healthy body.

2. Booster for brain:

• Dark chocolate Superfood helps the brain in lot of its functioning .Dark chocolate contains serotonin an antidepressant chemical which enhances the happy neurotransmitters in the brain and prevents it from taking stress and helping in avoiding hypotension brain strokes. That’s why people say that eating chocolate improves mood.
  
  • It also contains flavonoids which accelerates the blood flow of brain more efficiently.
  • Dark chocolate prevents brain from free radicals thus preventing premature brain cell aging and increasing the plasticity of brain.
  • It also a top dietary source of tryptophan an amino acid precursor to serotonin.
  • The magnesium found in Dark chocolate reduces stress by suppressing the release of stress hormone coristol.
  • The flavanoids in Dark chocolate limits prevents or reverse age-related deterioration.
  • Dark Chocolate increases good bacteria in your brain like lactobacilli and bifidobacteria . These bacteria prevent bad bacteria to damage the brain and lowering the levels of Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).

Dark chocolate is also helpful in enhancing the mental ability, learning capability and memory as well as enhances the personality of a person. In short a chocolate can make you even smarter than you think.

3. A Shield for the beat of your life:

• This superfood has one more super advantage which is that it provides protection from all cardiovascular diseases and strokes.
• Cocoa contains flavanols and heart friendly antioxidants which prevents heart from damages. It also prevents arteries and capillaries from being blocked by blood clots. It maintains blood pressure.
• Dark Chocolate also acts as anti-inflammatory. Inflammations take place when white blood cells respond to any germs trying to enter the body.
• Serious inflammations can cause serious damage to epithelial cells and tissues of our body and increase the risk of cancer too. So chocolates are very good anti inflammatories. 

4.   Skin benefits;

• Dark chocolate is also beneficial in skin care. It prevents skin from harmful free radicals emitted by sunlight.
• It also helps in bring moisture back and locking it in the skin, as it acts as a sheild against free radicals so it also prevents wrinkles, fine lines and aging  on the skin which are the result of radiation done by radicals.
• Chocolates makes skin glowing in appearance and soft in touch.
  
     Conclusion:
  Dark chocolates acts as a sheild to all the problems and provide with all necessary antioxidants and phytochemicals. But its overdose can harm too. It can cause obesity due to intake of higher amount of calories. Higher amounts of cocoa and caffeine can cause heavy breathing, depression and much more
  disorders due to just not ensuing the right amounts of chocolate. One more thing, you can get all benefits only when you’re consuming good quality dark chocolates. For consuming right amounts you should check the nutritional value of the chocolate or how much cocoa it contains.70% of cocoa and one to two ounces per day are sufficient.

So, from now being a chocoholic will not be bad for your health.

“Thank You.”