Can you lose weight with chocolate? Yes, maybe. Yes. No, this is not another article screaming for attention in a click-bait. While milk chocolate may sound like a weight gain recipe every day, a study finds it can help the body burn fat and reduce blood sugar levels beginning the day with a concentrated quantity of chocolat.
The effects of eating milk chocolate in the morning on a small group of post-menopausal women were investigated by Brigham researchers in cooperation with researchers of the University of Murcia.
The study in The FASEB Journal has shown that the intake of chocolate in Morning or Night does not result in weight gain. On the other hand, the chocolate consumption showed that hunger, appetite, microbial composition and sleep played a role in the morning or in the evening.
In the morning, high chocolate intakes may also help burn fat and reduce blood glucose levels and the chocolate intake altered the next morning’s repose and exercise metabolism in the evening or night.
“Our findings show that the physiological mechanisms involved in body weight control can affect not only what’s but also when” we eat,” said Frank A.J.L. Scheer, a medical scientist at the Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
“Their results are very strong. “Thanks to increasing caloric intake, our volunteers did not gain weight.
Our results indicate that the intake of chocolate ad libitum is lower than that of hunger and appetite, and the need to eat sweet food demonstrated in previous study,” said Marta Garaulet, also at the hospital.
The team performed a random, controlled cross-examination of 19 post-menopausal women who either consumed 100 g of chocolate every morning (one hour after the wake) or evening (within one hour before bedtime). They compared weight gain and a number of other chocolate intake measures.
