Eating Milk Chocolate After Waking Up May Help With Weight Loss, Claims Study Finds

Starting and ending our day with something sweet and sweet like milk chocolate could actually be beneficial in helping you burn body fat, study finds published in the journal FASEB.

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That’s according to a study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and researchers at the University of Murcia in Spain.

In the study, they served 19 postmenopausal women 100 grams of milk chocolate within an hour of waking up and an hour before going to bed for two weeks, followed by two weeks without chocolate.

The chocolate contained 18.1 grams of cocoa in each serving. The choice chocolate was also quite amazing since it is said to have the most caloric content, due to its sweet nature, as opposed to dark chocolate.

The researchers found that neither of the two intakes resulted in weight gain in individuals. The researchers said that instead, it acted as an appetite suppressant. It is in fact said that milk chocolate in the morning also helps burn fat and lower blood sugar.

This was due to the presence of naturally occurring flavonoids in cocoa which lead to increased fat oxidation.

Study author Marta Garaulet, University of Murcia, explained: “Our volunteers did not gain weight despite the increased calorie intake. Our results show that chocolate reduced energy intake ad libitum, which is consistent with the observed reduction in hunger, appetite, and craving for sweets shown in previous studies.

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The researchers added: “Women were less hungry eating chocolate in the evening than in the morning or without chocolate and were less hungry for sweets eating chocolate (in the morning or in the evening) than without chocolate.

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The researchers also found, based on sleep records, that consuming chocolate at night resulted in more regular synchronization of sleep episodes with lower variability in onset of sleep, compared to consuming chocolate in the morning.

While the study felt like grabbing a chocolate bar while visiting the supermarket today, keep in mind that the study was conducted on a very small number of specific individuals and that further analysis is required. necessary to see if similar results are obtained at all ages and gender groups.