Samar Samir:
Posted on: Tuesday, 7 July 2020 – 4:15 PM | Last update: Tuesday 7 July 2020 – 4:15 PM
Today (July 7), the world celebrates World Chocolate Day, which is one of the most loved desserts by everyone. This date dates back to the birth of Hershey, the founder of the chocolate industry, Milton Hershey, and according to scientists and nutritionists, many health benefits can be obtained. For chocolate, many people also reported that eating chocolate helps improve their mood.
The medical website “Pathway” published the benefits of chocolate and its relationship to mental health.
Chocolate as a mood booster
Many people find that chocolate improves their mood and provides emotional relief; This is because it helps release the multiple peptides in the brain and intestine, as when they dissolve and digest in the stomach, it makes one feel comfortable.
Chocolate as a comfortable food
Most of the time when people are depressed or anxious, they search for comfortable food to help encourage them and get rid of their bad feelings, and they often resort to chocolate, where it helps to release endorphins, which are hormones that cause happiness, and dark chocolate also contains all the properties associated with the effects Antidepressant for tryptophan, serotonin, and phenethylamine.
• Other benefits of chocolate
Dark chocolate is also found to improve memory, organizational skill, and spatial visual memory, as it helps improve abstract thinking, scanning, and tracking, and cocoa polyphenols in dark chocolate improve the cognitive facilitation of the mind.
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