It all started three thousand years ago, when chocolate was consumed by the Maya and the Aztecs. Then, slowly, after millennia, in the 16th century, chocolate was started to enjoy in Europe, though not all, but only those who could afford to "drink money" in the literal sense. Chocolate has become a currency, an asset and a luxury.
Not so long ago it was possible to read how our contemporaries already accuse chocolate of all deadly sins - high cholesterol, obesity, caries, and today we are talking about the fact that bitter chocolate is suitable for weight loss.
Can I lose weight on chocolate?
Theoretically, black chocolate can be used for weight loss, as well as any other product. There is even a special chocolate diet, which suggests that you will not eat anything other than chocolate. Your daily portion is 100 grams, and that's all ... This means that the calorie content of the diet will be 540 kcal. Caloric content is dangerously low and badly low, but even for such a miner one could "eat" more.
Formally, you can lose weight and fat. If you eat 100 grams of fat a day and nothing else, you will lose weight. But if you do not rush into such extremes, the bitter chocolate can really benefit from losing weight if you combine it with normal food.
Benefits for slimming
First, chocolate is a very vitamin product. It contains vitamins B1 and B2, calcium, iron, potassium , magnesium in large quantities. Bitter chocolate contains theobromine (a relative of caffeine), which also stimulates the nervous and cardiovascular system, although 10 times weaker than coffee. This is not bad, given that weight loss often coincides with a decline in strength, mood, depressiveness.
Moreover, chocolate contains "useful" cholesterol and lowers the level of harmful, it also regulates the work of the intestines and literally saves from constipation, which so often occur on a diet due to a sharp change in diet.
If losing weight, you will eat a bit of bitter chocolate a day, it will only benefit.