by Marília
Drug or just pleasure?
By: Marília Lara Marcondes Machado
Many people love chocolate, but some people are so crazy for the candy that they call themselves "chocaholics". I love chocolate too and in a research about this delicius candy I had a choking surprise! Chocolate could be dangerous for our health, but not only because you could get fat whith a large consume of it, but also because it could addictd the consumers.
A research made by 'Hospital das Clínicas' from São Paulo and in the site http://www.chocolateinfo.com/article_db/27.html showed that 36% of the interviewees said that they have a dependence on chocolate. Some of them told they eat in the shower, they wake up in the middle of the night to buy it and so on.
The doctors allege that not only some substances in the chocolate cause dependence and pleasure, but also the taste, smell and texture aggravate the colateral damages.
They also conclued that most dependents are women and the biggest frequence is during their period. Doctors belive that in this period the woman body is deficient of some substances and they use the chocolate to get better.
The researches haven't finished yet and the doctors are still in doubt of what are the consequences of the chocolate in the brain. So we have to eat this wonderful candy with care and not forgetting the "danger" that it places for ourselves.