What happens if you eat chocolate during menstruation?

Nowadays, women often experience some conditions during menstruation, such as dysmenorrhea, insomnia, nightmares, headaches, etc. It is difficult to completely cure them by taking medicines. If you have troubles during menstruation, you can eat some chocolate appropriately, which can well relieve the problems during menstruation. Although it has a certain relieving effect, it cannot be taken in excess. What will happen if you eat chocolate during menstruation? Let’s introduce it below.

The benefits of eating chocolate during menstruation

Relieve dysmenorrhea Chocolate has a certain effect in relieving dysmenorrhea. Eating chocolate appropriately can relieve dysmenorrhea during menstruation or mild headaches and heaviness caused by insomnia.

Relieve emotional instability

Chocolate can relieve depression and make people excited. During menstruation, eating a moderate amount of chocolate can relieve the irritability and depression that occur during menstruation. Keep menstrual blood flowing Chocolate can accelerate blood circulation, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Eating a moderate amount of chocolate can keep menstrual blood flowing and make it discharge more smoothly.

Eating too much chocolate during menstruation can increase breast pain

Chocolate contains catecholamines. Eating too much chocolate during menstruation can cause aggravated breast pain and irritability.

Increased menstrual flow

Chocolate is very high in calories. Eating chocolate during menstruation will accelerate blood circulation. Eating too much will lead to excessive menstrual flow.

Aggravation of discomfort symptoms

Chocolate contains a large amount of monosaccharides. Eating too much chocolate during menstruation will not only fail to improve the discomfort symptoms of menstruation, but will affect the balance of hormones in the body due to unstable blood sugar, and aggravate the discomfort. Stimulate appetite: Eating too much chocolate during menstruation will cause a large amount of monosaccharides in the chocolate to enter the body, stimulating insulin, causing it to be secreted in large quantities, causing blood sugar to drop instantly, and thus stimulating appetite.

At the same time, chocolate plays a powerful role in all aspects of human health. Eating more chocolate can effectively fight aging. It can also keep you away from cardiovascular diseases, comprehensively replenish trace elements to enhance your immunity, quickly replenish energy, and drive away gray moods. In addition, it will not cause increased blood lipids. Because many people worry about eating chocolate, they think they will get fat, suffer from diabetes and tooth decay, etc. In fact, this is a misunderstanding.

Although the fat content in chocolate is much higher than other foods, the cocoa butter contained in chocolate is unsaturated fatty acid and will not make people fat. A large number of experiments have shown that cocoa butter does not increase the cholesterol content in the blood. As for the fear that chocolate contains too much sugar and will cause diabetes if eaten, this is also unfounded. According to specialized measurements, diabetes is not caused by consuming sucrose; moreover, the average Chinese person currently consumes only 17 grams of sugar per day, while consuming 30-50 grams of sugar per day is absolutely safe. Chocolate is different from candy because it dissolves quickly and is not easy to stay in the mouth, so it does not cause much damage to the teeth.

In short, try to eat less during menstruation. If you really want to eat, it’s harmless to eat a little.