The Mirror.Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, US, gave milk chocolate to 19 women within one hour of waking up and one hour before they went to sleep for two weeks.Results found that the chocolate intake made no difference in the participants' weight and actually aided weight loss.It said that eating chocolate in the morning can actually help burn fat and reduce glucose levels in the blood.This may possibly be due to flavanols, beneficial chemicals found naturally in cocoa that increase fat oxidation.Whereas eating chocolate at night helped to regulate sleeping patterns and alter metabolism.Over the course of the trial, participants were allowed to eat "any other foods" including sweet treats, aside from their milk.
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