Black chocolate potent to treat chronic cough

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Many people believe that eating chocolate can make fat and cause coughing. But dark chocolate turned out to have the benefits on the contrary, that is able to relieve a chronic cough because of its content of theobromine.

A study in the UK in December 2012 ago involving 300 patients at 13 hospitals, proving that theobromine, the content of which there on black chocolate successfully relieve chronic cough. The number of doses of theobromine are given by the researchers is as much as 1000 mg every 2 times a day for 2 weeks of the study period.

A piece the black chocolate which pure, usually contains about 450 mg of theobromine. So that patients need about 2/3 pieces of the overall portions of dark chocolate to provide the required amount of theobromine, as reported by NaturalNews, Friday (18/01/2013).

Unfortunately, symptoms of cough come back in some patients after giving dose theobromine discontinued. But other studies in London, England also been establish that dark chocolate able to relieve chronic cough.

Most people think that chocolate is more detrimental to health such as causing obesity or cough than the benefits for health. Chocolate is bad for health is the type of chocolate that contains more sugar and milk.

Black chocolate generally has a slightly bitter taste, if compared with mostly the sweet chocolate which many found in supermarkets. A healthy type of chocolate must contain at least 70 percent cocoa or you can get the biggest benefit from the raw chocolate.

The higher level of cocoa, the better to health, because cocoa beans contain antioxidants that are very high. Antioxidant levels is offered by the pure black chocolate even bigger than berries and raisins.

Black chocolate also contains magnesium, the main mineral necessary for the smooth over 300 of metabolic functions in the body. In addition, the high sulfur content in black chocolate helps build body tissue and protect the liver.

Source:  Natural News