| | Mike;
From a medical perspective, chocolate especially is considered a drug. Actually, if you can bring yourself to eat a tiny bit of pure or almost-pure cacao every day, it will be very healthy for you, increases mental capacity, and increases metabolism, which increases energy. However, it tastes terribly bitter without all the additives. Also from a medical perspective, everything about weight or muscle growth is about caloric intake, as well as what you are intaking. Try to make certain, if you are cutting calories, that you have good sodium, potassium, and protein intakes, and that (unless you want to lose weight and muscle) your outtake is the same as your intake. There are plenty of online sites to help with that, and to help with explaining cacao. Also, processed sugar has caffiene, so it is usually considered a drug as well. However, if you look online, there are two to three extremely good alternatives (NOT Sweet'n'low, which is worse medically), which are completely natural. Honey is one. Agave nectar and stevia are the other two, I believe?
Anyway, do what makes you happy. Goodness knows my boyfriend doesn't follow the "health book" as we practice it at all, and he seems perfectly happy. ;-)
Love and Happiness,
Jazzi
PS- double check before using stevia- I believe they thought it upped heart attacks? |