Chocolate and Health
Chocolate contains a substance called “Methylxanthines” that results in physical and physiological changes in humans.
This item is also found in coffee and colas.
People ignore this damage because they are not well known, however, its effects are very serious. The chemical nature of the substance is harmful to health. This can alter the protoplasm of the body’s cells.
The immediate effects of the substance, “Methylxanthines” begin as soon as you take a drink that contains and has duration of four hours. After drinking chocolate or cocoa, the person may have an imperfect balance, the heart beats faster, insomnia, fatigue and other symptoms. Some individuals experience a sense of anxiety, sleep problems, headache, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, irritability, restlessness, moodiness, and other general issues.
When a person gets used to make chocolate regularly, there are fewer of these symptoms already mentioned as the body gets used to them as normal and when you stop, then start to notice more severe symptoms because this drink is become a habit, like coffee, etc.
Many diseases (heart, allergies, diabetes, cholesterol, swelling, arthritis, asthma, etc.) Get worse when they consumed the substance. Many gastro-intestinal problems were exacerbated by the substance. Cancer is more common in those who consume chocolate.
All “methylxanthines” develop in the body’s cells and thus interfere with the enzymes act as poisons. As a result, certain cellular glands under the influence of chocolate, coffee, colas or you develop fibrous tumors, especially in the breasts. There is headache or migraine. Many Scientists have found that in men the prostate.
Making an assessment of chocolate found three basic factors:
1. It is a toxic chemical and inherent. The substance that contains so-called “Theobromine” causes stimulation in the central nervous system, lack of sleep, insomnia, depression and anxiety. It also contains “tannins”, a substance that causes cancer in the digestive tract.
Children who drink milk with cocoa have problems urinating at night in bed. The cocoa also interferes with calcium absorption because chocolate contains oxalic acid. The cocoa in the milk of children encourages them to consume more calories from the sugar and fat, this increases weight.
2. The chocolate drink becomes an additive because it is tasty. Take be habit-forming because it contains several additive substances as “alkaloids”, “pyrolysates” and more. A lot of sugar is needed to make chocolate
appetizing. Furthermore, various oils must be combined with the chocolate in order to eliminate the taste is not pleasant to have the beans (cocoa). Generally, added to milk chocolate, sugar and oil to make it rich, becoming a food injurious to health. Any amount of chocolate consumed, however minimal, is due to fermentation and obstruction in the digestive system.
3. The contamination has chocolate you eat. Cocoa beans are produced in countries where hygiene standards are long overdue.
Cocoa is a beautiful small tree that grows in tropical regions of the world where millions of pounds of chocolate, cocoa and other products are produced annually. The cocoa is defined as food that is prepared by heating at high temperatures the grains (cocoa). Chocolate is the food prepared with the cocoa solid ground. Contains at least 50% fat.