Body & Health.

Chocolate strengthens vessels, forces heart to beat more exactly and normalizes arterial pressure, and at all it does not raise it, as it was considered earlier. 200-gramme chocolate bar contains only 30 milligrams of caffeine whereas with each cup of coffee or strong tea we receive this substance six times more.
Owing to chocolate, as preventive maintenance of blood clots formation in vessels, it is not necessary to drink aspirin any more. Biologically active substances from flavones group with, in which cocoa-beans are rich, normalize function of blood platelets - thrombocytes.
Chocolate is a fine source of iron and kalium, elements necessary for hemoglobin synthesis and heart support. Magnesium, which is containing in chocolate, raises stability to stresses, improves memory and strengthens immunity.
In reasonable dozes chocolate is recommended to future mums - if to eat chocolate during the pregnancy, the child will be born cheerful. Men should also pay attention to chocolate: German sexologists have counted up, that only one chocolate bar replaces six tablets of Viagra.
But you should remember that not all types of chocolate are useful to our health. All useful properties, which were mentioned before, are inherent only in bitter chocolate with the high maintenance of cocoa. All other kinds - white, dairy, porous chocolate or chocolate with stuffing, - is no more, than a delicacy.