Another reason to each chocolate!

Sp1nGoddess
Sp1nGoddess Posts: 1,134 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Chocolate May Be Calorie-Neutral!

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The UC San Diego findings were even more favorable than the researchers conjectured. They found that adults who ate chocolate on more days a week were actually thinner – i.e. had a lower body mass index – than those who ate chocolate less often. The size of the effect was modest but the effect was “significant” –larger than could be explained by chance. This was despite the fact that those who ate chocolate more often did not eat fewer calories (they ate more), nor did they exercise more. Indeed, no differences in behaviors were identified that might explain the finding as a difference in calories taken in versus calories expended.

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EAT chocolate... = )

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  • mauibound2
    mauibound2 Posts: 46 Member
    Sweet this is a boost LOL I guess everything is ok in moderation Thanks for the post
  • angelashay42
    angelashay42 Posts: 286
    These studies always make me laugh. It's hard to believe that chocolate actually makes you lose weight. The simpler answer is just that skinnier people tend to eat chocolate more often. This could be for a multitude of reasons. My guess: Fatter people are always on "diets" and depriving themselves of chocolate so when they do have it, they binge on it. Whereas thinner people have learned to work a fair amount of chocolate into their normal daily diets. Everything in moderations.
  • Nopedotjpeg
    Nopedotjpeg Posts: 1,805 Member
    Correlation =/= causation. Cool study none the less, but let's take it in context people.
  • littlelily613
    littlelily613 Posts: 769 Member
    I looooove chocolate! Every once in awhile I have 3 dark chocolate squares which ARE supposed to be healthy and contain antioxidants. Buuut, I don't think I am going to increase my intake. I probably eat enough of it.
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,160 Member
    I know I love a little melted chocolate in peanut butter...it's almost a daily snack for me.

    and yes, I do sometimes lick the bowl....and get it on my nose and chin.
  • coconutbuNZ
    coconutbuNZ Posts: 578 Member
    Cake is my weakness. I love cake more than chocolate.
  • kyt1206
    kyt1206 Posts: 101
    1) The study is a pay only to view study - which means it has minimal reviews and the data cannot be criticized by those outside of the journal society. This always raises red flags when people won't open up their findings for criticism.

    2) The original purpose of this study was to be non-cardiac effects on statin drugs, not chocolate. This was just a random correlation.

    3) Again, as previously stated and I agree with, correlation =/= causation.

    4) It does not say which type of chocolate, how much was consumed, and does not note in the public news that the people who consumed more chocolate also had the worst correlation for thinness.

    5) There was no mathematical figure involved in the calculation of chocolate intake, it was simply guessed and then estimated.
  • Pocket_Pixi
    Pocket_Pixi Posts: 1,167 Member
    I know I love a little melted chocolate in peanut butter...it's almost a daily snack for me.

    and yes, I do sometimes lick the bowl....and get it on my nose and chin.

    I love melted chocolate in peanut butter... so delicious. I too lick the bowl... every time.
  • Sp1nGoddess
    Sp1nGoddess Posts: 1,134 Member
    I need to try that melted chocolate in peanut butter thing... = )
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