This is a study that will delight all chocolate addicts: if we are to believe the research of a specialist in nutrition and obesity from the University of Sydney (Australia), Amanda Salis, nibble a square of chocolate everyday would be worse for your health than devouring the whole wafer at one time.
How is it possible ? Quite simply thanks to adaptive thermogenesis, the phenomenon set up by our metabolism when we ingest a large number of calories at a time. “The more kilojoules we add to our body, the more it starts to burn. If you swallow the calories from your chocolate bar all at once, you will burn them faster than if you swallow them little by little, day after day. “explains Amanda Salis.
His colleague, an expert in nutrition from Deakin University in Melbourne (Australia) moderates the results of this study a little and recalls that, even swallowed at once, the calories from the chocolate bar will not make you lose weight! “We have the capacity to absorb most of the nutrients that we consume with food. Certainly the metabolism speeds up when more calories are swallowed, but that does not protect against weight gain.”
In France, chocolate consumption is 6.5 kg / year per person. Compared to our European neighbors, this is not huge since we only occupy 8th place in the ranking of chocolate eaters. Far in front of us, we find the Swiss, of course, closely followed by the Germans: they eat about 12 kg each per year, that is to say twice as much as us. On the other hand, we are the country in Europe which consumes the most dark chocolate : it represents 30% of sales in France while it only reaches 5% in other European countries. That’s good: dark chocolate protect the health of our arteries !
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