Sihaiwang: chocolate is a kind of common sweet food in our life. Chocolate tastes soft and sweet, which is loved by many people, especially girls and children. However, the period of menstruation for girls is a special sensitive period. Can you eat chocolate? During menstruation, what should be paid attention to when eating chocolate? Let's have a look.
Can you eat chocolate during menstruation
It is said that chocolate is irritant and can cause dysmenorrhea; it is also said that chocolate can relieve tension and dysmenorrhea. According to the actual investigation, there are both. For more severe primary dysmenorrhea, caffeine may aggravate the pain, but generally, eating chocolate will relieve premenstrual syndrome. Especially cold dysmenorrhea, eating chocolate during menstruation can promote blood circulation, relieve pain and anxiety, which is very pleasant and comfortable. It's also a matter of experience.
But it's not to say that you can eat a lot. Eating too much chocolate will not only make meat, but also make a fire. Therefore, it is good to eat chocolate in proper amount during menstruation, but not too much.
What is the effect of eating chocolate during menstruation
In fact, menstruation and chocolate do not have much to do with, of course, whether menstruation or non menstruation, or the use of other food should be appropriate. In fact, eating chocolate does not have much to do with pain relief. Eating chocolate can only make you feel calmer. Maybe you can drink brown sugar water to relieve slight pain. More facts prove that chocolate is suitable for the premenstrual syndrome of mood instability and anxiety depression in the days before menstruation, so there will be the saying that you can eat more chocolate during menstruation. Therefore, it's good to eat some chocolate properly during menstruation, but you can't eat more. Eating more is not good for your health.
Precautions for eating chocolate during menstruation
Chocolate is a kind of high calorie food, which can quickly supplement the energy needed by human body. The protein content of chocolate is relatively low, but the fat content is high. The best way to eat chocolate is to cut it into pieces, a small amount of slow food, easy to meet, but also easy to produce satiety.
Experts pointed out that chocolate has a certain role in alleviating dysmenorrhea, you can eat some properly, but don't overdo it, so as to avoid side effects such as obesity. The phenol compound of chocolate can not only prevent the fat of chocolate from putrefaction, but also can be absorbed into the blood vessel quickly after being eaten into the human body. The antioxidant component in the blood is increased obviously, and the active effect is a powerful antioxidant which can prevent LDL oxidation and inhibit platelet activity in the blood vessel. These phenol substances play an important role in keeping blood vessels smooth.
Chocolate contains catecholamine, which can aggravate menstrual irritability and breast pain in women, so you can eat chocolate during menstruation, but you should have a proper amount. Especially for women with menstrual syndrome, it is recommended to eat less chocolate.