Chocolates help you lose weight and make you healthy and beautiful
Generally speaking, sweet food is regarded as poison by people who want to lose weight. In fact, proper eating of chocolates helps you lose weight and makes you healthy and beautiful. We can say that everyone loves chocolates! With a history of 3000 years, chocolates not only have a good taste, but also have many functions. They help control diets and have anti- oxidization function. Some people even use chocolates to have a spa. Health and beauty are connected to chocolates.

Originated from the ancient Mayan culture, chocolates were used as medicine at the beginning. At that time, people called them “drink of Gods”. Made of cacao beans, chocolates themselves do not have that high calorie. But now people think they can cause fat because a lot of sugar, nuts and milk are added during the producing. Pure cacao beans do not contain much fat. What’s more, caffeine inhibits the appetite. Phenylethylamine brings the happy feelings as in love. Isoflavone prevents edema. Therefore, Japanese invited a way of losing weight by chocolates. But here chocolates mean dark chocolates which contain more than 70% cacao beans. When you want to eat snack or before meals, you can eat a piece of it, you can feel full and don’t want to eat much food. However, you can not eat more than 50 mg dark chocolates every day.

Chocolates are natural antidepressants
According to a research, 38% of German women and 34 of French women eat chocolates to cheer them up. Many doctors also use them to relieve the melancholia because they contain much magnesium which calms nerves and removes depression. Eating chocolates stimulates the pleasure centre of you brain and reduces adrenaline. Thus, many women eat them to ease the discomfort caused by menstrual periods. But don’t eat too many because tyramine in chocolates can cause headache.

Chocolates have the function of anti- oxidization
Free radicals are the recognized cause of ageing, and thus anti- oxidization becomes the first step of anti- ageing. Polyphenol in cocoa has 4 times stronger anti-oxidization than that in green tea. Cacao oil smoothes and softens skin. Before in France, chocolates can only be eaten by the upper class. But nowadays almost everyone can have them.

Chocolates can be used in spa
In Four Seasons Hotel France, famous for spa, chocolate spa is among the most popular. Let the body experience the charm of chocolates directly. There, ladies love to massage with high-class chocolate oil and wrap their bodies with hot chocolates.

Chocolates prevents artery blockages
Proper amount of dark chocolates promotes the blood circulation and thus reduces the chance of artery blockages because they contain some substance called flavanol which is contained in grapes, apples, green tea, and mostly cacao beans.