Chocolate Addiction Is More A Result Of Unconscious Decisions Made By The Mind Than Any Conscious Decision
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Chocolate addiction at one time was only associated with negative things including cavities in the teeth and elevated blood sugar levels though recent studies have shown some positive aspects to eating chocolates, though these will not mitigate the problem and are no more than a silver lining on an otherwise dark cloud. So, if one goes by recent clinical studies on the effects that dark chocolate, and cocoa in particular, have on our health, there is reason for some joy and a good bit of optimism.
Cocoa Has Some Positive Effects
Eating the cocoa contained in chocolates gives the body polyphenols that help in reducing inflammations and which also give the immune system a boost while also gobbling up free radicals all of which is for the good of one’s health. Still, it is no excuse for chocolate addiction, which in the old ages was more or less confined only to the very rich, nobility and of course royalty who were the only people that could afford this dark brown stuff, and when their chocolate addiction was not satisfied for whatever reasons, the results were certainly very testing on those who had to work at providing the chocolates to the addicted gentry.
With the spread of chocolate eating to countries such as Italy, Switzerland, England as well as Holland there was a noticeable shift in terms of chocolate addiction which had become known outside of France and had begun to be known in other European countries as well, and which also took on a more civilized garb. And, in the next fifteen hundred years, chocolate making was mastered and countries such as Switzerland had become world famous for their chocolates.
Also, given the fact that Casanova consumed chocolate to further his love making conquests and also that chocolate is greatly instrumental in elevating a person’s mood and can often be more satisfying than sex, its allure to the consumer is so great that the risk of chocolate addiction will prove even more real than for any other food.
The all pervading power of chocolate over our senses is best seen when chocolate addiction takes over our being and whatever good intentions we may have had about kicking the habit gets thrown out the window the next time the urge hits us and we are unable to resist one more chocolate bar. Thus, it is clear for all to see that chocolate addiction cannot be overcome with just will power, because chocolate addiction is a result of unconscious decisions made in the mind over which the heart and will power have no control.
To overcome chocolate addiction may in fact require some kind of re-education of the mind and not simply willing one to refrain from eating more of the sweetly addictive brown stuff.
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Chocolate Addiction Is More A Result Of Unconscious Decisions Made By The Mind Than Any Conscious Decision
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
Chocolate addiction at one time was only associated with negative things including cavities in the teeth and elevated blood sugar levels though recent studies have shown some positive aspects to eating chocolates, though these will not mitigate the problem and are no more than a silver lining on an otherwise dark cloud. So, if one goes by recent clinical studies on the effects that dark chocolate, and cocoa in particular, have on our health, there is reason for some joy and a good bit of optimism.
Cocoa Has Some Positive Effects
Eating the cocoa contained in chocolates gives the body polyphenols that help in reducing inflammations and which also give the immune system a boost while also gobbling up free radicals all of which is for the good of one’s health. Still, it is no excuse for chocolate addiction, which in the old ages was more or less confined only to the very rich, nobility and of course royalty who were the only people that could afford this dark brown stuff, and when their chocolate addiction was not satisfied for whatever reasons, the results were certainly very testing on those who had to work at providing the chocolates to the addicted gentry.
With the spread of chocolate eating to countries such as Italy, Switzerland, England as well as Holland there was a noticeable shift in terms of chocolate addiction which had become known outside of France and had begun to be known in other European countries as well, and which also took on a more civilized garb. And, in the next fifteen hundred years, chocolate making was mastered and countries such as Switzerland had become world famous for their chocolates.
Also, given the fact that Casanova consumed chocolate to further his love making conquests and also that chocolate is greatly instrumental in elevating a person’s mood and can often be more satisfying than sex, its allure to the consumer is so great that the risk of chocolate addiction will prove even more real than for any other food.
The all pervading power of chocolate over our senses is best seen when chocolate addiction takes over our being and whatever good intentions we may have had about kicking the habit gets thrown out the window the next time the urge hits us and we are unable to resist one more chocolate bar. Thus, it is clear for all to see that chocolate addiction cannot be overcome with just will power, because chocolate addiction is a result of unconscious decisions made in the mind over which the heart and will power have no control.
To overcome chocolate addiction may in fact require some kind of re-education of the mind and not simply willing one to refrain from eating more of the sweetly addictive brown stuff.
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