When asked about her stunning physique, American actress Katherine Hepburn used to say, "What you see before you is the result of a lifetime of eating chocolate." And it seems that it was not misguided. Beatrice Golomb and her colleagues from the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of San Diego (USA) have shown that people who consume more chocolate have a lower body mass index – and therefore are hardly obese or overweight – than those who consume more chocolate. little fond of cocoa , even if they do little physical exercise.
Of course, when choosing the type of chocolate we eat, it should be borne in mind that scientists from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) have found that dark chocolate is more satiating than milk chocolate , and that it helps reduce voracity. towards sweet, salty and fatty foods. To demonstrate this, they asked several dozen volunteers to take 100 grams of dark chocolate and, for 2 and a half hours, then they offered them pizza to "eat their fill." A few days later they repeated the experiment, replacing dark chocolate with milk chocolate. The results showed that, after drinking dark chocolate, the participants ate 15% less pizza than if the snack contained milk chocolate.
