For me chocolate has to be a certain kind. Too sweet and it's off putting, mixed with fruit, okay, but uh chocolate covered raisins or cherries, I'll pass. I am very particular about my chocolate and I'm okay with that. Really, I'm totally good with that. I like what I like and most women do. We know what we like and won't substitute it for anything else. My chocolate cravings like I mentioned earlier ( or did I neglect to?) were out of hand and when I began to turn my life around and change for all things health and fitness I found out some startling things about chocolate; well the sugar in chocolate.
Let's get one thing straight, chocolate is not chocolate until you add sugar to it and milk products. Cocoa on it's own is cocoa and it is disgusting! It's bitter and has no emotional reward what-so-ever. When cocoa is mixed with the essentials such as milk, butter, sugar and what nots ( nuts) then ooooh, that is when it becomes a chocolate sensation women crave. Okay I crave. But back to sugar.
Sugar is the one ingredient that actually affects our brain chemistry in a specific way. Studies have found that sugar reacts within the brain in the same way as narcotics do. In other words, the euphoria and satisfied sensation someone receives while taking drugs is the same sensation one receives when ingesting sugar. But not only that, it turns out that this sugar 'high' affects the same areas of the brain and produces the same feel good response as sex does. This is why addictions are hard to break because like drugs, the brain is tricked into unnatural feel good highs that one naturally feels when they experience sexual pleasure.