Re:I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss
by Mikeb85 on Sunday June 14, 2015 @01:01PM
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To be honest, chocolate may help in an indirect way...
If someone's on a diet, and never gets any 'reward', they might be tempted to cheat or give up.
If they're told a little chocolate every day is good, they'll stick with their diet, have their chocolate, and forego worse 'cheat' items (even though chocolate has plenty of fat and sugar, the amount you consume before you're content is relatively small compared to say, ice-cream, cookies, etc...).
Studies (and anecdotes) have shown that chocolate makes people happy, so that little happiness at the end might just help people stay on their diet and not stress out (stress can cause the body to store fat). Maybe it's something like the French paradox...
The study was pretty funny though, and I appreciate their honesty. And it goes to show why pretty much all research on fad diets is nonsense. Still though, if you choose between drinking a gallon of pop per day or chocolate, chocolate wins. So maybe their 'research' didn't go to waste.
If someone's on a diet, and never gets any 'reward', they might be tempted to cheat or give up.
If they're told a little chocolate every day is good, they'll stick with their diet, have their chocolate, and forego worse 'cheat' items (even though chocolate has plenty of fat and sugar, the amount you consume before you're content is relatively small compared to say, ice-cream, cookies, etc...).
Studies (and anecdotes) have shown that chocolate makes people happy, so that little happiness at the end might just help people stay on their diet and not stress out (stress can cause the body to store fat). Maybe it's something like the French paradox...
The study was pretty funny though, and I appreciate their honesty. And it goes to show why pretty much all research on fad diets is nonsense. Still though, if you choose between drinking a gallon of pop per day or chocolate, chocolate wins. So maybe their 'research' didn't go to waste.