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Chocolate for breakfast is good for you, according to new study


Starting your day off with chocolate - or even sneaking in a bit before bed - may not have the dire effects on weight gain you’d suspect.

A new study showed that people who ate chocolate within an hour of waking up or going to bed had faster metabolisms and reduced blood glucose levels.

Researchers studied the impact of adding milk chocolate to the diets of postmenopausal women for a paper published in The FASEB Journal. The study analyzed 19 postmenopausal women who were involved in a randomized, controlled cross-over trial. The women consumed 100g of milk chocolate either within one hour of waking up or within one hour of going to bed. The researchers compared weight gain and other measures to women who had no chocolate intake.

The researchers reported that morning or nighttime chocolate intake did not lead to weight gain and that eating chocolate in either the morning or the evening can influence hunger and appetite, microbiota composition, sleep and more factors. They also found that a high intake of chocolate during the morning hours could actually help with fat burning and reduce blood glucose levels. Eating chocolate at night could also alter metabolism the following morning.