1, heartbroken person

Chocolate contains a substance that can stimulate stomach acid. People with heartburn should avoid eating chocolate, especially if they feel heartburn after eating chocolate.

Step 2 get pregnant

Mothers need to breast-feed their newborns after delivery. If they eat too much chocolate, it will have a bad influence on the baby's development. Theobromine contained in chocolate will penetrate into breast milk, be absorbed by infants and accumulate in infants.

Theobromine can damage the nervous system and heart, relax muscles, increase urine output, and make babies indigestion, unstable sleep and crying.

3. Children

Children under 8 should not eat chocolate. Chocolate contains substances that excite the nervous system, which will make it difficult for children to fall asleep and cry. In severe cases, you can't help but have a nosebleed.

4. Diabetic patients

Because chocolate is high in sugar and fat, diabetics should eat less or try not to eat chocolate.

Step 5 take it before meals

Eating too much chocolate before meals will lead to satiety and affect appetite, but soon after meals, people will feel hungry, thus disrupting normal life rules and eating habits and affecting children's health.

6. Menstrual women

Menstrual women try not to eat chocolate. Although chocolate can make people feel happy for a short time, eating too much chocolate during menstruation will aggravate menstrual irritability and breast pain.

Chocolate is a favorite snack for many girls, but in summer, girls stay away from it for fear of getting fat or being bad for their health after eating it. In fact, there are still many misunderstandings about chocolate. Now let Bian Xiao introduce you to the real efficacy of chocolate.

Second, the misunderstanding of eating chocolate

1, chocolate is not good for heart health.

In a balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, it is a healthy lifestyle to eat chocolate in moderation and keep regular exercise.

Researchers believe that flavonoids are healthy compounds found in plant foods and are the reasons for promoting heart health. Flavanol is a subclass of flavonoids, which is very rich in apples, grapes, red wine, tea, some cocoa powder and chocolate.

Not all chocolates contain the same amount of flavanols, because flavanols are easily destroyed during processing. When producing chocolate, cocoa beans must be carefully processed to preserve flavanols in them. Ongoing scientific research shows that flavanols can promote heart health in many ways.

2. Chocolate will raise blood pressure.

Cocoflavanol can maintain normal blood pressure by maintaining vascular health. Scientists have found that cuna, an American tribe living on an island far from the coast of Central America, has a high cocoa intake, but the incidence of hypertension is relatively low. The researchers speculate that there may be some connection between the two.

Kuna's traditional diet contains a lot of salt, which is a typical food related to hypertension. However, the incidence of hypertension in this population is very low.

The research shows that cocoa beverage is a traditional beverage in Kuna, and a large amount of flavanol ingested through this beverage plays a certain role in maintaining the healthy blood pressure of this population. Studies have also shown that cocoa flavanols can increase the concentration of nitric oxide in blood. Nitric oxide is very important for relaxing blood vessels and increasing blood flow, so it is also important for maintaining healthy blood pressure.

3. Chocolate can't resist oxidation.

Flavanols can be used as antioxidants. Antioxidants can help the body suppress free radicals in the body. Free radicals in the body are by-products of natural metabolism.

All processes in the body, including the digestion of energy by food, will produce free radicals. Without the inhibition of antioxidants, these free radicals may destroy healthy tissues and cells.

More importantly, antioxidants can reduce the oxidation of LDL cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol). When low density lipoprotein cholesterol is oxidized, plaques may form in blood vessels.

When plaque appears in an artery, it will block blood vessels and lead to a heart attack. Preventing blood vessels from forming plaques is very important for keeping the heart healthy. Studies have shown that after eating chocolate rich in flavanols, free radicals in the body will be reduced, LDL oxidation will be inhibited, and the antioxidant capacity in the blood will be enhanced.

4. Chocolate is not conducive to healthy blood flow.

Flavanol can maintain healthy blood flow by reducing platelet adhesion in blood. Platelets are disc-shaped cells in blood, which play a certain role in blood coagulation. In the initial stage of human injury, blood coagulation can form embolism to stop bleeding. But in the case of chronic heart injury, such as heart disease, blood coagulation is fatal, which may block the arteries that can provide normal blood to flow through the heart.

The preliminary clinical trial found that after eating cocoa drinks and chocolate rich in flavanols, compared with the control group with low flavanols, the tendency of platelet adhesion decreased relatively, which was similar to the effect caused by taking aspirin.

In fact, a study asked subjects to eat flavanol-rich chocolate and low-dose aspirin, and found that eating at the same time was more effective than eating separately.