Advantages and disadvantages of eating chocolate during menstruation 1, advantages of chocolate. Reduce the rise of cholesterol, chocolate contains a lot of cocoa butter and high content of stearic acid, which will not bring you trouble, but can lower the cholesterol in the blood, and there is no problem of threatening your weight. On the contrary, compared with chocolate, "healthy" foods such as beef, mutton, eel and eggs are more likely to bring high cholesterol. To relieve stress, chocolate can raise the level of a chemical called "Sai Lottonen" in the brain. It can bring people a sense of peace, better eliminate tension and play a role in relieving stress.
Lowering blood pressure: A survey of 44 healthy adults by German researchers showed that after eating no more than 30 calories of dark chocolate every day, their blood pressure dropped by an average of 2.9 mm Hg after 18 weeks. However, white chocolate and excessive consumption of chocolate have no such effect. Heart-friendly dark chocolate contains flavonoids, a natural antioxidant, which can prevent arteriosclerosis, increase myocardial vitality, relax muscles and prevent cholesterol from accumulating in blood vessels, and has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
2. The disadvantages of chocolate. First of all, there is a feeling of fullness, which leads to not wanting to eat, which will lead to malnutrition in the long run. Chocolate may also cause children's nervous system to be too excited. Secondly, chocolate is rich in sugar, which will lead to diabetes, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.
What happens when you eat chocolate during your period? Women can eat some chocolate properly during menstruation, which helps to significantly increase the antioxidant components in the blood. Relieve female menstrual discomfort. Women can eat some chocolate properly during menstruation. Phenolic compounds in chocolate can not only prevent the fat of chocolate from rotting and turning sour, but also be quickly absorbed by blood vessels after eating it, and the antioxidant components in blood are obviously increased.
It quickly became a powerful antioxidant, preventing the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein and inhibiting platelet activity in blood vessels. These subcomponents play an important role in maintaining smooth blood flow in human blood vessels. Therefore, it is good to eat chocolate properly during menstruation, but not too much. Eating too much is harmful to your health.
However, chocolate is a high-calorie food. Although chocolate can be eaten during the physiological period, the accumulated calories will exceed the standard if you eat too much. If you eat too much chocolate at a time, it may stimulate your appetite, because a large number of monosaccharides in chocolate enter the body, which stimulates a large amount of insulin secretion and makes your blood sugar drop instantly.