From its health benefits to the fact that it just tastes great.
foil-wrapped eggs, grinning chocolate bunnies and the most temptingvirtues of green juices, the potential pitfalls of dairy and thedelights is enough to cause a mild panic among those who questionshow that feeling guilty about indulging this Easter isThere are healthy ways to eat chocolate. "Look for a high-quality chocolate, preferably organic and from an ethical source, with a high cocoa mass ," advise Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley of [Hemsley + Hemsley].
Allowing yourself to indulge from time to time is good for your sanity - inflexible rules and "banned" foods will only make cravings worse. So, surely Easter is as good a time as any to relax a little? "With anything, it's always best in moderation, even when it's a good thing.
It makes you happy. "Cacao [chocolate in its rawest form] contains theobromine, a natural stimulant that some believe can boost your mood and even beat depression," Simpson tells us. "It may cause the brain to produce more of a neurotransmitter called anandamide which would account for the euphoric sensation some feel when indulging in chocolate.
You could win a Nobel Prize… Maybe. The link between cognitive function and the eating of chocolate has long been touted, so a Columbia University study in 2012 took the number of Nobel Prize winners in a country as an indicator of general national intelligence and compared that with the nation's chocolate consumption. The correlation was pleasingly high. Naturally, the Lindt-loving Swiss came out on top.
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