RE: ADSactly Health - Dark chocolate is a brain booster and much more
In my view every food has some qualities and every food can provide us nourishment and useful healthy ingredients. It is the advertisements, in the name of scientific researches, which tell that that food is good for that thing and that one is good for that other thing. Can consumption of olive, nuts, see foods etc make us superman? No. There is no super-food available in this world. Any food item on this world is not devoid of good quality. Only a single food item cannot do miracle. There should be balance in our diet. We should include various types of food items, if possible.
No doubt, chocolate is a very tasty and healthy food item and benefits us like other food items but it should not be forgot that excess of everything is bad.
So, so called scientific research can also make us superstitious. We should not believe them blindly. We should just enjoy our food and should also care for those who are not able to take two times meal as their pocket don't allow them.
I partially agree with you, to keep a shiny health people should eat everything, we are omnivorous after all. But the definition of superfood (which is not scientific, but just a commercial one) just defines something with a greater nutrition value among same types of food and not a food that can give you all kinds of nutrients. About this, let me say that summer is approaching and we often see some diets to lose weight that include just 1 or 2 types of food: these kind of approaches are totally unhealthy and even dangerous for some people. There is no food that can give you anything our body needs, as you said, but lots of food can help our body to work better. Dark chocolate, in small portion, is one of them!
One last thing about scientific researches: it's true, sometimes they say "white" and other times they say "black", making things confusing. The thing is, some researchers are sponsored by companies and so they are heavily biased. This is where real professionals come in to play, studying, reviewing and comparing papers to share the real evidence. Don't be so distrustful about science and research, there are lot of people out there (still the majority, I can assure you) that study and work to produce scientific research that are good for the human kind and not for their pocket!
@cryptoitaly I am not against scientific research and I am not blaming scientists. But these days we are being fooled in the name of scientific research. Many lies are being served to us in the name of science. GM food is one of them. Even in TV ads we see a lot of anti bacterial products which depict every bacteria as our enemies. Can we live in a world without microorganisms? No!
So, we should not believe anything without using our brain, even if someone says that it is based on science?