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I am interested in the U.K. I choose an article from BBC news, and intend to introduce the article in this blog.

This time, I chose this news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7018055.stm


I love chocolate. There are many chocolates in Japan. It is said that polyphenol included in chocolate is good for health and we can see the chocolate product with conscious of healthy in a convenience store and supermarket recently. However, it is not well known to people what kind of effect there is in chocolate. I don’t know, too. Therefore I found one interesting article about the chocolate.

According to the article, it is said to be effective in reducing the symptom of the chronic fatigue syndrome in chocolate. One day, a patient in a pilot study reported feeling much better after swapping her normal milk chocolate for dark chocolate with a high cocoa solid content. Then Study leader Professor Steve Atkin, an expert in endocrinology, decided to see if other patients would benefit and carried out a trial of 10 patients who received a daily dose - 45g - of dark chocolate or white chocolate dyed to look like dark chocolate for two months. The result was the contents which the professor have been surprised at. When the patients stopped continuing eating dark chocolate, they felt fatigue more. In addition, the effect that dark chocolate reduced fatigue was bigger than the white chocolate. It is because a lot of polyphenol in dark chocolate. Professor Atkin said polyphenols is able to activate the serotonin, which is included a lot in a brain, and it brings a big effect in chronic fatigue syndrome. Of course it may cause the corpulence to take in surplus. However, it can become good medicine if I continue taking in the chocolate of the appropriate amount.

My mother said " You should eat chocolate when you are tired" in old days. I thought it was superstition. However, I knew an effect of the chocolate this time and understood that mother didn't say random thing. I am really glad if I can send healthy daily life by eating delicious things. Not only chocolate, but also every food has the unknown power that is not yet known to the world. By a future study, maybe we can send healthy life more easily. I will continue eating chocolate from now on! （Of course it is an appropriate amount）