For Better Emotional Health w Chocolate Prevention, NOT Chocolate Treatment

Chocolate can be linked to your emotions in a GOOD way, or in a BAD way. It’s like the line from Glenda in the wizard of oz, “Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?”

From chocolate’s perspective, it is neither, as this food becomes healthy for you in one condition, and unhealthy in another. And you are the one who can change your chocolate from bad-for-you, into good-for-you.

The difference between these two polarities comes down to this: treatment versus prevention.

TREATMENT: If you have a really bad (or good) day and console (or reward) yourself with chocolate, then your mood gets a temporary boost that lasts about 3 minutes (this isn’t made up data, it’s actually about 3 minutes). Then you have to dose up again, and again, and you get this picture. This is not healthy.

PREVENTION: If you have high cocoa chocolate on a regular basis, objective measures of anxiety and chronic fatigue are reduced. Measures of contentment and satisfaction increase.

And the best best news is that the healthier route — prevention — just means that you need to have a little every day!! That’s a bonus right there, LOL.