While the Easter weekend is an opportunity to carry out the famous chocolate egg hunt, Doctor Jimmy Mohamed recalls that, consumed in moderation and preferably dark, chocolate can have good consequences on health, all by not necessarily making you fat. 

Like many French people, you have undoubtedly enjoyed a lot of chocolates this Easter weekend.

So of course, those much-anticipated chocolate eggs are often very sweet, and therefore bad for the figure, but you don't have to give up chocolate the rest of the year.

Because if it is consumed in moderation, chocolate, especially dark chocolate, can have a very good impact on health, but also on morale, recalls Doctor Jimmy Mohamed on Europe 1. 

Chocolate is a food that is produced from the cocoa bean which will be fermented, roasted and crushed until it forms a liquid cocoa paste.

Already consumed more than a thousand years before Jesus Christ, it has many advantages. 

Choose dark chocolate

The chocolate we eat will be made up of this cocoa paste, butter and sugar.

As long as it is not too sweet, it is rich in magnesium, potassium, copper and dietary fiber, particularly useful for the microbiota.

It also contains caffeine and molecules close to endorphins which will have an antidepressant effect.

This is why eating chocolate is so comforting.

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But despite everything, chocolate remains very high in calories, and even more so those with white chocolate or milk, which will be very sweet, and therefore promote weight gain.

Conversely, some studies show that consuming dark chocolate, in a reasonable way, has no impact on weight gain.

We can therefore consume about 30 grams per day of a chocolate preferably 70% cocoa.

Chocolate improves cognitive abilities

According to other studies, this would have a positive impact on cardiovascular disease, stroke and even improve the lipid profile, by lowering bad cholesterol.

Chocolate, consumed in moderation, also improves cognitive abilities, that is to say intellectual functions, because chocolate is rich in antioxidants called flavonoids.

However, be careful not to consume too much chocolate in the evening, as this can be a source of gastroesophageal reflux.