No exaggeration if some people call chocolate as a paradise food. By the Aztecs in Mexico, cocoa, which comes from the word xocoati (Aztec language), believed to be sent of God of Agriculture from heaven. Chocolate is believed to be the food of the Gods.
Besides it feels good, chocolate is also efficacious as natural painkillers. As revealed in a study conducted a number of researchers at the University of Chicago, the pleasure derived when chewed chocolate will work as a painkiller.
In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers tested a group of mice placed in a cage. Mice looked in pain and lifting its paws when heated cage floor. But when rats were fed chocolate, they could not lift its paws even though the floor still hot.
Although the research conducted on animals, but researchers believe will the same affect for humans. “The impact is incredible,” said Professor Peggy Mason.
Stimulates power of chocolate to produce endorphin is able to create a calm mood. Endorphin is chemical in the brain that can reduce stress. So eat chocolate if you feel sick.
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