Chocolate and Happiness

Chocolate and Happiness

            Let us forget the famous proverb “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” How if we make the new one? “A bite of chocolate a day keeps the wrinkle away.” We definitely need that new proverb. Since a long time ago, chocolate has been related to bring happiness for those who eat it. When people feel so sad, what do they eat? Chocolate! What do they feel after they grab and then eat chocolate? Happy, is not it?

Actually, this phenomenon can be proven scientifically. Due to some researches done by professionals, chocolate is proven containing phenethylamine that can trigger endorphin to be released. Endorphin itself is the hormone produced by our body when we feel happy. With the help of endorphin, we can feel much more relax and also control our emotion better. Researchers also said that the reaction produced after eating chocolate is the same with the feeling we get when we are in love. Besides that, in 1996 researchers found that chocolate also contains anandamide that can activate brain receptor just like weed does. No wonder whenever we eat chocolate, we get our mood back instantly. However, the chocolates distributed in markets nowadays contain less chocolate and more sugar which makes the benefits cannot really be felt. Moreover in America, milk chocolates contain only 10 percents of liquor chocolate where it should be 30 percents.

Despite the scientific facts about chocolate and its relation with happiness above, the other reason why it can bring happiness to people because most of the time, we are happy after eating chocolate because of the person who gives it to us not because of the chocolate itself. Mostly it is given by the ones that care and love us, for example our crush, as a symbol to show love. This makes us happy because we feel like we are special and adored. However it is just my silly assumption according to what I have ever felt.