World Cup United States, 1994. It was the first time that Fátima Bernardes accompanied a Brazilian team in the most important contest of football, as special envoy of Rede Globo. Thanks to stay in Brazil, in charge of the National Journal, hubby William Bonner devoured 15 candy boxes over the 43 days that the two were separated. It was anxiety, longing, all this, of course. But there was something else. "I noticed long ago that the unit [chocolate] to me is the box. The whole package."
Who suffers from the same "evil" is the singer Claudia Leitte. Heat account that is in Bahia, the artist decided to buy a refrigerator just for their chocolate stocks - not to melt. "Once, I bought ten Kit-Kat boxes with 50 bars in each box. My intention was to give away to people. But I could not. I ate it all alone."
The statements of the two famous are the Chocolate book - Why ?, like so much of Rio journalists Ana Paula Brazil and Andrew Modenesi, which compiles chocoholics celebrity confessions. Are reports that might soften the anonymous guilt can not go a day without eating chocolate. After all, both Bonner as the singer are successful and lean - Claudia's been more than once in Good Shape magazine cover - which somewhat belies the prejudiced image of chubby melancholy filling with chocolate while watching a sad movie on TV. But science may have another point of view about it.
A 2010 study from the University of California found that people tend to eat more chocolate when your symptoms of depression increase. Thousand healthy subjects who were not taking any antidepressant medication or suffering from cardiovascular disease or diabetes, were asked about how much chocolate they ate in a week. And then they had their measured mood. The result does not leave much doubt: those diagnosed without any depression ate an average of five servings of chocolate. Those with moderate depression, eight servings. As for the real depressed cleaned candy closet: they ate no less than 12 servings in a week. "Our study confirms a suspicion long time: that eating chocolate is something that people usually do when they are down," said Beatrice Golomb, one of the authors of the research.
But addictive?
The fact depressed is throw more truffles and brigadiers makes sense if you look like chocolate interacts with our brain. The magnesium and tryptophan, nutrients present in cocoa stimulate the body to produce endorphins and serotonin, neurotransmitters responsible for the well-being feeling. And you may know someone who says that only improves your mood when you eat chocolate all day.
But is this healthy? People who only feel well during the particular consumer product are also identified around like alcoholics or addicted to crack. So to say that chocolate is addictive, is it? Chocolate depends.
A 2015 study by the University of Michigan came to confirm an already shared printing by most of the experts: processed foods, highly processed, and therefore high in fat and sugars, are able to master our will - as far as alcohol and nicotine. "We identified in individuals with symptoms of food addiction, or with higher body mass indexes, a bigger problem to deal with a lot of processed foods," said Erica Schulte, lead author of the study. "This suggests that people may be especially sensitive to the rewarding properties of food."
She's talking about potato chips, frozen pizza, junk food in general. But what most people mean by chocolate: that of the "milk", more popular and accessible, preferably with the highest level of sugar. Maybe stuffed. And sugar, yes, addictive. The white powder receptors on the tongue are related to the production of endocannabinoids - the same substance found in marijuana and that our body produces to trigger hunger. Today, 67% of Brazilians between 19 and 59 years beyond the ideal amount of sugar in the diet. As explained in the book Marcia Kedouk Plate Dirty - How the industry handles food to vitiate you (published by SUPER) in 1930 every American consumed an average of 15 kilograms of sugar per year. Today, there are 55 kilos annually - while the world average is 21. The Chinese eat only 7 kilos. "Much of this alarming situation has to do with the fact that we eat several servings of sugar without realizing it," explains the author.
Vigilantes of cocoa
The good news is that not all chocolate is a bottomless hole in your tooth much sugar. When in doubt, always check the order of ingredients on the packaging: who appears first is in greater quantities in the recipe. And chocolate of superior quality, often even begin is with the cocoa mass - again, we're talking here of bitter chocolate. The greater the amount of cocoa in the product of the fruit, the smaller the space for the sugar composition. And the healthier the snack.
Eat all chocolate holy day can be a thing of chocoholic, but if the daily amount is moderate, we are talking more of a positive habit than an attached behavior to the depths of addiction - as good chocolate, in small amounts, is good for the health. I was for the German writer Johann Goethe: "Who drinks a cup of chocolate withstands a day trip."
bad chocolate, as much processed food can be addictive. Chocolate good achievement.
Still, there are people who, regardless of the type of chocolate, being depressed or satisfied with life, to be fat or thin, consume chocolate in absurd amounts. How to prove our characters in this matter: the anchor of the Jornal Nacional and the singer of "Chocolate Love". In such cases, the diagnosis may be another, as explains nutritionist Vanderli Marchiori, president of the Paulista Association of Phytotherapy and chocolate specialist. "I had a patient who ate every day 500 grams of chocolate. Five bars. Someone like that should not be treated like addicted to sweet, but a psychiatrist to know how to deal with compulsive behavior. This disturbance will appear in several other attitudes everyday person with work, in relationships, not only in its exaggeration with chocolate. "
According Marchiori, will hardly be a support group for people addicted to chocolate, a 'chocoholics anonymous. " Precisely because, unlike hard drugs, chocolate does not cause the "dependent" suffer physically and psychologically with deprivation, or that has changed behavior, and even aggressive, for lack of a daily dose of bonbons. "If one does not stop to feed on vegetables, fruit and vegetables, to live only chocolate all day, let her be happy."
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