Even after rigorous academic research, we still can't answer the question whether eating chocolate can prevent cancer. But we are not talking about whether chocolate is good for health-this problem has been solved perfectly for a long time. Instead, we will look at the historical saying about chocolate and health. /kloc-in the 6th century, westerners just learned about chocolate from the Aztecs, and soon after, they began to be fascinated by studying its efficacy. It seems that exquisite attributes are far from enough for them, and these conquerors are really dissatisfied.
163 1 year, Spanish doctor Antonio.
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Ledesma published the first scientific paper on chocolate and health. At that time, doctors in Europe still took the theory of "four body fluids" as the theoretical basis of their practice (the different proportions of four body fluids in human body, including blood, black bile, yellow bile and mucus, constituted everyone's different temperament: the dominant blood is sanguine, showing a cheerful personality; Melancholy is mainly melancholy, showing melancholy temperament; Jaundice is mainly bile, showing irritability; Mucus is dominant, characterized by calm temperament. Colmeiro
Explained the role of cocoa in "temperament", and he also wrote the first recipe of western-style hot chocolate.
Ten years later, British captain James Wadsworth published several translations of Colmeiro's thesis. In an influential version, he added some powerful effects of chocolate in the preface according to his own subjective ideas:
"It can cause strong lust, thus helping women conceive and accelerating women's delivery. It can also be of great benefit to digestion, and it has a miraculous effect in treating emaciation, lung cough, neonatal diseases or visceral diseases, as well as other bleeding symptoms, chlorosis, jaundice and various intractable diseases. "
Although these statements are completely untenable at present, Wadsworth did have an insight into a theory that is applicable to today. He wrote in the article: "Drinking hot chocolate often can make you fat, beautiful and kind."
Let's fast forward to today. Behind all the recent research on the debate between chocolate and health, there is a short story for your entertainment. In 1990s, scientists published some amazing reports about cuna who lived on Panamanian island in the Caribbean for generations. Cuna's diet in the Caribbean is westernized and high in salt. However, Kuna, who is over 60 years old, has basically maintained the level of young people in their twenties and thirties. Compared with North America, Central America and South America, Kuna, who lives in the Caribbean, has an average 90% lower chance of dying of heart disease. At the same time, people who immigrated to Panama City soon had typical American high blood pressure and heart disease mortality.
In a series of studies, scientists found that what protects Kuna's heart in the Caribbean is a drink, which may be made from locally grown cocoa beans and added with sugar. In an interview on 20 1 1, the researchers told NIH newspaper: "They (cuna in the Caribbean) drink a lot of cocoa, which may be ten times as much as our daily intake." The rest is a boring history of science.