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You'll put on weight less quickly with dark than milk chocolate
If you think we're about to claim that dark chocolate can help you lose weight, then you've got the wrong end of the stick. There are far too many calories in the stuff. But if you do want to eat chocolate, then confine yourself to the dark variety. According to researchers at the university of Copenhagen, you'll put on less weight than if you eat milk chocolate.
Study
Results
But even when the researchers corrected for this, and looked at the total amount of kcals that the subjects ate during the chocolate breakfast and the pizza lunch [Ad lib meal + chocolate], they noticed that the amount was 8 percent lower after the dark chocolate breakfast than after the milk chocolate breakfast.
The researchers also asked the men every half hour throughout the day to score how much they felt like having something sweet to eat. The score was lower after having consumed the dark chocolate breakfast.
Mechanism
They put forward a theory about how this might work. "There have been no studies measuring the gastro-intestinal transit time of cocoa butter. If the gastro-intestinal-transit time of the dark chocolate is longer [...], then this will lead to a delayed absorption of fat in the gastro-intestinal tract."
"A delayed absorption of fat leaves more undigested fatty acids in the gastro-intestinal tract, which could lead to increased release of appetite-regulating gastro-intestinal hormones, such as cholecystokinin, glucagon-like peptide-1 and peptide YY."
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