Eating milk chocolate at this time of day can help body burn fat
Eating milk chocolate every day may sound like a recipe for weight gain, but a study of postmenopausal women has found that eating a concentrated amount of chocolate during a narrow window of time in the morning may help the body burn fat and decrease blood sugar levels.
The study was published in The FASEB Journal.
To find out about the effects of eating milk chocolate at different times of day, researchers from Brigham collaborated with investigators at the University of Murcia in Spain.
Together, they conducted a randomized, controlled, cross-over trial of 19 postmenopausal women who consumed either 100g of chocolate in the morning (within one hour after waking time) or at night (within one hour before bedtime). They compared weight gain and many other measures to...