I believe in the power of chocolate.
The reason I chose this topic is simply I really love chocolate. Chocolate gives me great courage and power. For example, I was a 3rd year student in high school and I studied very hard to pass the entrance exam of the university. It was really stressful to study all the time and I felt a lot of pressure to pass the test. Since I had no time to do things other than studying, the only pleasure for me then was eating delicious food, especially chocolate. However tired I was, it encouraged me to continue studying. It made me relax. It helped me a lot. Also, It worked to make me concentrate on studying too. Because of the sugar it contains, eating chocolate before taking test or studying enabled me to concentrate more on the task. I eat chocolate whenever I take tests. Chocolate is like an amulet for me. So I became interested in the power of chocolate.
The power of chocolate is proved scientifically too.
The main effect for people are following.
1, Effective for preventing high blood pressure
One of the polyphenol, ‘Epitecakin’ which is contained in chocolate affects blood vessels and prevents and improvement of high blood pressure.
2, Good for losing weight.
The ‘Epitecakin’ also increases the amount of the muscle and works to decrease the weight.
3, Relax effect
The sweet smell which is unique to chocolate helps us to concentrate and remember. Moreover, the content ‘Teoplomin’ calms the nerve.
4, Good for beauty health
Chocolate contains various well-balanced minerals such as Calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc. They have good effects on beauty.
Chocolate has been used as medicines for a long time.
It was said that ‘ If you have one chocolate drink, you can walk all day long without eating anything.’ As to be said like this, chocolate was said to be excellent in analeptic and recovery from exhaustion.
It is for what mashed cacao and was made tabular to have been made and to have been used at the time of Azteca as an expedition of food.
It seems like what we call an instant chocolate just said in now, and was pouring out and drinking hot water.
Although it was told that the Azteca empire had the mighty military strength, possibly the power was brought about with chocolate.
Furthermore, it was combined with various medicinal herbs and also used as a cure-all which is effective against a toothache, alleviation of fever, an arrest of hemorrhage, an indigestion, etc.
It seems that Maia’s people used also for the medical treatment and the sunscreen of a burn the cacao butter which can be taken from cacao.
Now, cacao butter is used as materials of cosmetics products.