If there is one thing that many cannot give up on a diet, it is chocolate, or even cocoa . It is considered one of the most difficult foods to resist, and the reasons are many: it is the basis of many comfort foods, it is directly associated with sweets or something sweet, and in a sense it is addictive, because it stimulates serotonin, and especially it is addictive in women. It is no coincidence that in full PMS, chocolate is one of the foods you crave most. There is even a name for this addiction: chocolate. Ok, it’s an indecent name, equivalent to the English chocoholism.

But unlike other addictions , such as that of alcohol or smoking, addiction to chocolate is not this big problem if it is limited to daily consumption but not excessive: which is very feasible, since chocolate is satiating, its consumption It is linked to lower BMI in people , and consuming it in moderate doses gives us a lot of cardiovascular health benefits and is among the foods that increase insulin sensitivity.
Not only that, but a recent article that summarizes its main advantages, added a singular thing, which is the basis of this article: eating chocolate increases our willpower when we are on a diet.
In short, we can eat little and make food sacrifices, but if there is chocolate, the diet will automatically seem less burdensome. On page two we see how to eat chocolate and cocoa to lose weight!