Facts About Chocolate
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Dark chocolate helps with emotional stress. Eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people feeling highly stressed. How is it beneficial to one’s mind and body or not?
Thesis Statement: "People all around the world enjoy eating a sweet of some sort. A favourite internationally is chocolate. Despite chocolate being a food which is high in calories, saturated fat, and sugar, it can still be a healthy food to consume.
Introduction: The early 15th century saw the creation of something divine, something heavenly and something delicious; Chocolate. Despite chocolate being a food which is high in calories, saturated fat, and sugar, it can still be a healthy food to consume. (Nool, 2012)
The study, announced today, found that people who rated themselves highly stressed to begin with had lower levels of stress hormones after eating chocolate every day for two weeks. The study's subjects ate 1.4 ounces (40 g) of dark chocolate daily, or a little less than a regular-sized Hershey's bar, which contains 1.55 ounces (44 g).
The doctors took urine and blood plasma samples from the participants at the beginning, halfway through, and at the end of the two week study, and found lower levels of the stress hormones cortisol and catecholamines in the samples at the end. (Living Without 2009)
Discussion:
1. How does dark chocolate help with emotional stress? The scientists, led by Sunil Kochhar of the Nestle Research Center in Switzerland, detailed their findings in the Oct. 7 issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.
"The daily consumption of dark chocolate resulted in a significant modification of the metabolism of healthy and free living human volunteers with potential long-term consequences on human health within only 2 weeks treatment," the researchers wrote in the paper. "This was observable through the reduction of levels of stress-associated hormones
Dark chocolate helps with emotional stress. Eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people feeling highly stressed. How is it beneficial to one’s mind and body or not?
Thesis Statement: "People all around the world enjoy eating a sweet of some sort. A favourite internationally is chocolate. Despite chocolate being a food which is high in calories, saturated fat, and sugar, it can still be a healthy food to consume.
Introduction: The early 15th century saw the creation of something divine, something heavenly and something delicious; Chocolate. Despite chocolate being a food which is high in calories, saturated fat, and sugar, it can still be a healthy food to consume. (Nool, 2012)
The study, announced today, found that people who rated themselves highly stressed to begin with had lower levels of stress hormones after eating chocolate every day for two weeks. The study's subjects ate 1.4 ounces (40 g) of dark chocolate daily, or a little less than a regular-sized Hershey's bar, which contains 1.55 ounces (44 g).
The doctors took urine and blood plasma samples from the participants at the beginning, halfway through, and at the end of the two week study, and found lower levels of the stress hormones cortisol and catecholamines in the samples at the end. (Living Without 2009)
Discussion:
1. How does dark chocolate help with emotional stress? The scientists, led by Sunil Kochhar of the Nestle Research Center in Switzerland, detailed their findings in the Oct. 7 issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.
"The daily consumption of dark chocolate resulted in a significant modification of the metabolism of healthy and free living human volunteers with potential long-term consequences on human health within only 2 weeks treatment," the researchers wrote in the paper. "This was observable through the reduction of levels of stress-associated hormones