Is chocolate bad or healthy? What percentage of cocoa should be in
the right chocolate? Can I eat chocolate on a diet? What kind
Ingredients should not be present in the chocolate bar?
For answers to these questions, we turned to a specialist clinic
�”RimmaRita” Olga Perevalova.
– Olga Chrysanthemovna, how harmful or useful all the same
chocolate and can it be given to children?
– Chocolate is essentially cocoa, and cocoa is valuable
antioxidant, a useful product consisting of vegetable protein,
that is, not containing cholesterol. But chocolate comes in different varieties.
In milk chocolate, of course, already present animal
protein.
Modern chocolate additives – nuts, seeds, dried fruits too
helpful. But do not forget that in the usual 100 gram tiles
Chocolate contains 500-600 calories. Therefore, the tile should not
eating one at a time is best to eat 2-3-4 slices per day. For children
chocolate can be given from about two years old and it is better to teach them
to bitter chocolate.
– Well, you understand that on 2-3 segments no one usually
can not stop, because chocolate is like a drug.
– And this is easily explained. Chocolate stimulates the production
happiness hormones – seratonin and melatonin. And who will refuse
happiness? In fact, it is a universal antidepressant. Melatonin
improves sleep quality. The person gets enough sleep, feels awake,
full of strength, improving the quality of life. I, by the way, repeatedly
spoke on TV and urged men not to drink during times of stress
alcohol, and there is chocolate.
– Why men?
– And women and so eat chocolate during problems intuitively.
Apparently, as more highly developed beings (laughs). Generally
the tendency is that women have more control over their health
and looks. Men are usually waiting for extreme cases.
So, chocolate is a good alternative to alcohol, cigarettes and
coffee that does not give real relaxation and seriously crush
health. There is a loss of muscle mass, for example. There is a so-called
�“Glossing over the problem”, not its solution.
Chocolate, on the contrary, strengthens muscle mass, as it contains
protein, well relieves stress, gives prevention of atherosclerosis.
The main thing is not to get involved. Even during stress, chocolate is not worth it.
absorb the tiles. Daily dose – 50 g, and it needs to be broken into
day. The calorie content of chocolate is not only due to sugar, but also
fats, ordinary tile consists of about 60 percent fat. BUT
the sugar content depends on the variety, in its bitter chocolate,
Of course, less. And, again, only bitter chocolate blocks
atherosclerosis because it contains enough cocoa.
– What is the best chocolate? Usually we praise Swiss
Russian seems to be no longer honored?
– The higher the cocoa content, the better. On the shelves there
chocolate with 60 percent content, 80%, 90% is all good
varieties. Chocolate with 100 percent cocoa I think is necessary
sell in pharmacies as a sedative – a small tile. Him and
do not eat much, and do not get better. BUT производитель тут не важен.
The main thing is to carefully read the composition – chocolate bar does not
must contain additives unknown to you with index E;
In no case should there be trans fat. Otherwise, the benefits of such
chocolate will be a bit.
