8 Science-Backed Reasons To Stuff Your Face With Chocolate This Easter
No one can judge you for it, it's science.
Easter is one of those special times of year when retail gets to capitalise on tradition.
As simple creatures, most of us like to celebrate by indulging in overpriced chocolate, from the customary bunnies and eggs through the less conventional (and sacrilegious) dinosaurs to family size packs of economy chocolate, melted and poured directly into your mouth. What a time to be alive.
Just as with Christmas, "everything in moderation" isnt a mantra anyone likes to hear during this period, but there are actual ways to make ourselves feel slightly better about the extra calories and stacks of sugar. And we have science to thank for it, and the insistence that there actually are some supposed health benefits of chocolate to lessen the guilt.
So, if you plan to spend this weekend in a chocolate-induced stupor that would make Willy Wonka whimper, you can find comfort in the knowledge that you could be doing yourself some good (or at least "less bad"). Plus it's only once a year, so you may as well enjoy it...
8. Cocoa Beans Are Packed With Super Healthy Stuff
They may be naturally very high in fat, but cocoa beans are also rammed with chemicals that are often used as buzzwords to market foods and drinks, like antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, which have a variety of beneficial effects on cells.
Thats the main reason that chocolate gets attention for supposedly promoting health, but it should be pointed out that some processing techniques destroy most of these molecules. Eating products that are high in cocoa like dark chocolate are therefore better than low cocoa, sugar-laden milk and white varieties.
Not to kill you buzz or anything.