Yes, chocolates are definitely good for studies. Not only studies, chocolates have a range of goodness that can benefit your overall physical and psychological health of a student. In this article, I will discuss how chocolates can benefit your studies. Also how different types of chocolates you can use to maximize your benefits on different purposes.
Almost all of us are fond of chocolates right from our childhood. Every child perhaps woos for nothing more than a piece of chocolate. Such is the role that chocolates play in our life right from the beginning. But many parents do not have much idea on how that chocolate is benefitting their child. They take it only on the taste and flavour value. But there is much much more than just that.
Chocolates are great for mainly five reasons. Let see what are they –
- They tastes really great
- Chocolates helps to produce nitric oxide (NO)
- They are rich in antioxidants (polyphenols, flavonoids and catechin)
- Chocolates are good in nutrition and calorie value
- Chocolates also contain a balanced quantity of caffeine
Let us see the points in a bit detail.
Do you think I need to tell more about the taste, flavour and aroma of chocolates? There is no need to listen more about how good chocolates can taste from a boring person like me. Instead just buy one for you and have the taste! It will itself speak it all.
Current world is more about stress, anxiety and depression. It is not much different for students either. There is huge performance pressure from their school or college. Parents are worried about their future and career. That stress of parents ultimately engulfs the students also. Thus creates a total ecosystem of stressful and depressive environments.
To encounter this type of situation one needs some feel-good agents. One such feel-good food is chocolate. The main reason for chocolate being so is its property to stimulate nitric oxide (NO) production within your body. This NO is a strange chemical with multiple roles to play. It is a chemical participant of the neural transmission mechanisms and cellular systemic modulator. It also plays an active role in neutralizing hypertensive behaviours of the cardio-vascular system by dilation of blood vessels and modulation of blood pressure. It is also important for many other physiological functional systems including the gastro-intestinal mucus stimulation. It plays a very active role in your immune system.
These and more makes nitric oxide (NO) a very important chemical to decide your overall wellbeing and stress defence. For handling such situations dietary intake of nitric oxide are becoming more relevant to the healthy diet concept. It prevents the body’s erratic stress defence system from getting triggered which can do much internal damage. If such mechanisms get triggered then the body’s natural nitric oxide production gets demodulated and in such cases excess of nitric oxide within the system can create harms to the nerve cells and dendrons.
But a good dietary source of nitric oxide can save the body from triggering into the stress related crisis mode and thus prevents internal damages caused by that. There are many nitric oxide food sources like the beet and the nuts, but chocolates hold a special place among all.
But on the flip side, I would like to advise that depending too much on nitric acid supplementation is neither an intelligent nor a healthy choice. At the first point, excess of nitric acid in our system can cause adverse effects including damage to neurons. Moreover, it can effectively suppress the body’s natural nitric oxide synthesizing potential which can have very serious future implications. That creates an external dependency which can create a condition that we can call conditional homeostasis which gets disrupted as soon as we will withdraw the external agent.
So do consume chocolates in moderation, that will do benefits and also modulate your natural nitric oxide synthesizing mechanisms. But never substitute your natural feel-good and happiness factors with something just a substance like chocolate. Afterall it is just a piece of food or an edible.
Moreover, there is always a chance for development of substance tolerance within your body which is absolutely undesirable and also very dangerous. Dangerous in the sense that the particular substance will lose the potency to generate any beneficial effect at the tolerant strength and dose or quantity. That is, you will miss the goodness of chocolates as you will continue to take it daily or very frequently.
Only those foods which are categorized as our major source of macronutrient and micronutrient are the right things to be taken daily. In that also rotation of food variations are sometimes recommended for maximization of nutrient absorption efficiency.
So all other beneficial substances are almost like medicines for us, which we can take help when and where required but in a much controlled manner with definite dose or quantity and definite period of time as well as frequency.
So consume chocolate on a regulated basis, like when you feel that you need one the most. You can keep some in your bag to give you energetic or anti-stress support when you will need it. The taste of the chocolate itself is enough to give you a lift of mood. But if you take it daily then that effect will lose its charm.
So for more nitric oxide abundance one should tap the more powerful and integrated sources of happinesses. Lead a stress-free life as much as possible, spend time with yourself and your favorite hobbies and works, spend more and more time with your near and dear ones, create a happy world around you to have that natural nitric oxide flush in your system.
The more is our choice of natural sources of wellbeing and happiness, more effective they are on the long-term basis. Moreover, under a proper and ideal lifestyle such natural sources do not become tolerant or saturated.
For example do you think you would ever become tolerant to the benefits of drinking water even if you drink litres of it every day? You can become tolerant to tea, coffee, alcohol anything but you will never become tolerant to water. Forever everyday you will drink 5 litres of it, still it will do the same benefits and same goodness to you till the last day of your life. That is how nature has engineered our relationship with water.
Beside our daily nutrition, antioxidants play a vital role in our wellbeing. It has become more relevant in respect to good health due to many factors of the modern world, starting from air and water pollution, food adulteration, bad lifestyle, professional and personal stress and so on. Actually the negatives of the world seem to be ever increasing with passing days and so called advancement of us in technology and socio-economic scenarios.
With these are increasing the amount of free radicals inside our body.
This is the balance between free radicals and antioxidants. Now if the free radicals start to increase for any reason whatsoever, then you have to increase the supply of antioxidants to neutralize it and keep the balance inside your body. Otherwise you will have a good chance to get into some disease.
The picture mentions some potential sources of free radicals in our body. All the causes are almost related to modern world issues.
Thus you can see how different types of stress are contributing to the increase in the levels of free radicals in us. And this process will continue to increase because there are no indications of reduction of stress but you can expect it will keep increasing.
So, considering all these factors, you have to keep your protection against free radicals as much as you can. One such step is intaking foods that will help you to increase the levels of antioxidants in your body. And chocolate is such a food. Chocolates contain a good amount of antioxidants.
This one issue of antioxidants can make chocolate belong to the top of your healthy food list. The requirement of antioxidants is increasing at such a rate that we will need to plan incorporation of antioxidant rich foods in our daily diet chart.
There are few foods like chocolates (esp. Dark chocolates) which are as rich in a variety of polyphenols and flavonoids. Chocolates are good sources of catechin as well. These compounds have enormous antioxidant effects on our system and thus protect and promote our good health and holistic wellbeing.
This is another great benefit of chocolate. They are packed with a huge amount of energy as well as nutrition. Stimulants like tea and coffee usually do not have this amount of nutritions and they contain more empty calories in the form of sugar. That does not do much benefit for our health. Instead, high consumption of empty calories during the hour of energy requirement can lead to many diseases.
But the calories of chocolates are filled with good calories. They usually have a balanced amount of simple and complex carbohydrates, protein and fat. This makes it a total food. Even it has got a healthy amount of dietary fibre which is a big virtue of any good and all round balanced food. With a calorie value more than 600 for approximately 100gm of dark chocolate it is a high calorie food for the time of high energy requirement. Even a small bar of 10 gm only can provide the calories you burn to run or jog more than 1 km (with an average body weight and fitness).
Chocolate is as a stimulant and energy provider is well comparable to popular drinks like tea and coffee. Chocolate can provide you a comparable stimulation boost at the cost of lesser caffeine consumption. Caffeine content of chocolate is much less than that of tea and coffee.
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From the USDA data we can see that dark chocolates usually have less caffeine than coffee and a standard bar of milk chocolate has much less caffeine than a cup serving of black tea or coffee.
I think this is more than enough discussion we are having about something like chocolate. It is better to eat one than reading these pages of boring discussion. If you are bored enough by now, this is the right time to get a bar of chocolate and take the experience about how it can work. If you can read another article here after taking the chocolate then understand that chocolate can really do good for your studies. Next time when you feel too bored or monotonous or exhausted with your studies then you can try a bar of chocolate.
Do you think I need to tell more about the taste, flavour and aroma of chocolates? There is no need to listen more about how good chocolates can taste from a boring person like me. Instead just buy one for you and have the taste! It will itself speak it all.
Current world is more about stress, anxiety and depression. It is not much different for students either. There is huge performance pressure from their school or college. Parents are worried about their future and career. That stress of parents ultimately engulfs the students also. Thus creates a total ecosystem of stressful and depressive environments.
To encounter this type of situation one needs some feel-good agents. One such feel-good food is chocolate. The main reason for chocolate being so is its property to stimulate nitric oxide (NO) production within your body. This NO is a strange chemical with multiple roles to play. It is a chemical participant of the neural transmission mechanisms and cellular systemic modulator. It also plays an active role in neutralizing hypertensive behaviours of the cardio-vascular system by dilation of blood vessels and modulation of blood pressure. It is also important for many other physiological functional systems including the gastro-intestinal mucus stimulation. It plays a very active role in your immune system.
These and more makes nitric oxide (NO) a very important chemical to decide your overall wellbeing and stress defence. For handling such situations dietary intake of nitric oxide are becoming more relevant to the healthy diet concept. It prevents the body’s erratic stress defence system from getting triggered which can do much internal damage. If such mechanisms get triggered then the body’s natural nitric oxide production gets demodulated and in such cases excess of nitric oxide within the system can create harms to the nerve cells and dendrons.
But a good dietary source of nitric oxide can save the body from triggering into the stress related crisis mode and thus prevents internal damages caused by that. There are many nitric oxide food sources like the beet and the nuts, but chocolates hold a special place among all.
But on the flip side, I would like to advise that depending too much on nitric acid supplementation is neither an intelligent nor a healthy choice. At the first point, excess of nitric acid in our system can cause adverse effects including damage to neurons. Moreover, it can effectively suppress the body’s natural nitric oxide synthesizing potential which can have very serious future implications. That creates an external dependency which can create a condition that we can call conditional homeostasis which gets disrupted as soon as we will withdraw the external agent.
So do consume chocolates in moderation, that will do benefits and also modulate your natural nitric oxide synthesizing mechanisms. But never substitute your natural feel-good and happiness factors with something just a substance like chocolate. Afterall it is just a piece of food or an edible.
Moreover, there is always a chance for development of substance tolerance within your body which is absolutely undesirable and also very dangerous. Dangerous in the sense that the particular substance will lose the potency to generate any beneficial effect at the tolerant strength and dose or quantity. That is, you will miss the goodness of chocolates as you will continue to take it daily or very frequently.
Only those foods which are categorized as our major source of macronutrient and micronutrient are the right things to be taken daily. In that also rotation of food variations are sometimes recommended for maximization of nutrient absorption efficiency.
So all other beneficial substances are almost like medicines for us, which we can take help when and where required but in a much controlled manner with definite dose or quantity and definite period of time as well as frequency.
So consume chocolate on a regulated basis, like when you feel that you need one the most. You can keep some in your bag to give you energetic or anti-stress support when you will need it. The taste of the chocolate itself is enough to give you a lift of mood. But if you take it daily then that effect will lose its charm.
So for more nitric oxide abundance one should tap the more powerful and integrated sources of happinesses. Lead a stress-free life as much as possible, spend time with yourself and your favorite hobbies and works, spend more and more time with your near and dear ones, create a happy world around you to have that natural nitric oxide flush in your system.
The more is our choice of natural sources of wellbeing and happiness, more effective they are on the long-term basis. Moreover, under a proper and ideal lifestyle such natural sources do not become tolerant or saturated.
For example do you think you would ever become tolerant to the benefits of drinking water even if you drink litres of it every day? You can become tolerant to tea, coffee, alcohol anything but you will never become tolerant to water. Forever everyday you will drink 5 litres of it, still it will do the same benefits and same goodness to you till the last day of your life. That is how nature has engineered our relationship with water.
Beside our daily nutrition, antioxidants play a vital role in our wellbeing. It has become more relevant in respect to good health due to many factors of the modern world, starting from air and water pollution, food adulteration, bad lifestyle, professional and personal stress and so on. Actually the negatives of the world seem to be ever increasing with passing days and so called advancement of us in technology and socio-economic scenarios.
With these are increasing the amount of free radicals inside our body.
This is the balance between free radicals and antioxidants. Now if the free radicals start to increase for any reason whatsoever, then you have to increase the supply of antioxidants to neutralize it and keep the balance inside your body. Otherwise you will have a good chance to get into some disease.
The picture mentions some potential sources of free radicals in our body. All the causes are almost related to modern world issues.
Thus you can see how different types of stress are contributing to the increase in the levels of free radicals in us. And this process will continue to increase because there are no indications of reduction of stress but you can expect it will keep increasing.
So, considering all these factors, you have to keep your protection against free radicals as much as you can. One such step is intaking foods that will help you to increase the levels of antioxidants in your body. And chocolate is such a food. Chocolates contain a good amount of antioxidants.
This one issue of antioxidants can make chocolate belong to the top of your healthy food list. The requirement of antioxidants is increasing at such a rate that we will need to plan incorporation of antioxidant rich foods in our daily diet chart.
There are few foods like chocolates (esp. Dark chocolates) which are as rich in a variety of polyphenols and flavonoids. Chocolates are good sources of catechin as well. These compounds have enormous antioxidant effects on our system and thus protect and promote our good health and holistic wellbeing.
This is another great benefit of chocolate. They are packed with a huge amount of energy as well as nutrition. Stimulants like tea and coffee usually do not have this amount of nutritions and they contain more empty calories in the form of sugar. That does not do much benefit for our health. Instead, high consumption of empty calories during the hour of energy requirement can lead to many diseases.
But the calories of chocolates are filled with good calories. They usually have a balanced amount of simple and complex carbohydrates, protein and fat. This makes it a total food. Even it has got a healthy amount of dietary fibre which is a big virtue of any good and all round balanced food. With a calorie value more than 600 for approximately 100gm of dark chocolate it is a high calorie food for the time of high energy requirement. Even a small bar of 10 gm only can provide the calories you burn to run or jog more than 1 km (with an average body weight and fitness).
Chocolate is as a stimulant and energy provider is well comparable to popular drinks like tea and coffee. Chocolate can provide you a comparable stimulation boost at the cost of lesser caffeine consumption. Caffeine content of chocolate is much less than that of tea and coffee.
From the USDA data we can see that dark chocolates usually have less caffeine than coffee and a standard bar of milk chocolate has much less caffeine than a cup serving of black tea or coffee.
Hence consumption of milk chocolate is better than dark chocolate in terms of caffeine content. And if we take dark chocolate in small amounts, say around the size of a standard milk chocolate bar of 44 grams or even less than that will be better as we will get the benefits of dark chocolates in price of less caffeine intake.
I think this is more than enough discussion we are having about something like chocolate. It is better to eat one than reading these pages of boring discussion. If you are bored enough by now, this is the right time to get a bar of chocolate and take the experience about how it can work. If you can read another article here after taking the chocolate then understand that chocolate can really do good for your studies. Next time when you feel too bored or monotonous or exhausted with your studies then you can try a bar of chocolate.