{"id":3887,"date":"2018-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/science-you-should-be-eating-chocolate-breakfast\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T02:05:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:05:25","slug":"science-you-should-be-eating-chocolate-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/lifestyle\/science-you-should-be-eating-chocolate-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Science says you should be eating chocolate for breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a bit of a sweet tooth and like to nosh on the odd Lindt ball, we have some excellent news for you: science has literally shown that adding chocolate to your brekkie is good for your health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beyonce feelin myself perfect ok yes.gif\" height=\"258\" width=\"480\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" class=\"media-element file-media-original nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/giphy_690.gif\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>According to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealth.com.au\/chocolate-breakfast-lose-weight\" target=\"_blank\">completed by teams at Syracuse University<\/a>, the addition of a little chocolate to your breakfast can improve your brain function and better prepare&nbsp;you for your workday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealth.com.au\/chocolate-breakfast-lose-weight\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Women\u2019s Health<\/em><\/a> has highlighted, a second study completed by Tel Aviv University looked at the health benefits of chocolate and indicated that adding the sweet treat to the first meal of the day can also assist with weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>We know. What a glorious piece of news.<\/p>\n<p>Now, don\u2019t go all crazy and start eating chocolate pancakes with cream and ice cream daily, expecting to lose weight in the process. But you can certainly consider adding a small serve of dark chocolate to your breakfast if you\u2019d like; the study focused on natural cocoa, after all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Getty<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Throws all cereal into the bin*&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,201],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-beauty","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.10 (Yoast SEO v21.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Science says you should be eating chocolate for breakfast - Smooth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/lifestyle\/science-you-should-be-eating-chocolate-breakfast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Science says you should be eating chocolate for breakfast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"*Throws all cereal into the bin*&nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/lifestyle\/science-you-should-be-eating-chocolate-breakfast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Smooth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-09T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-09T02:05:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/gettyimages-529140922.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2119\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1415\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Stephanie Nuzzo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Stephanie Nuzzo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/lifestyle\/science-you-should-be-eating-chocolate-breakfast\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/lifestyle\/science-you-should-be-eating-chocolate-breakfast\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Stephanie Nuzzo\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/fcad817e4d9ef3cfcd2ca03aca0d24a4\"},\"headline\":\"Science says you should be eating chocolate for breakfast\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-09T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-09T02:05:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/lifestyle\/science-you-should-be-eating-chocolate-breakfast\/\"},\"wordCount\":186,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Health &amp; 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