Chocolate is known for a long time, but, probably, any other product has no so much ardent adherents and opponents. On the one hand, there is an opinion that chocolate has positive influence on our organism, with another that it, on the contrary, is harmful and causes accustoming, therefore its use it is necessary to limit.

However with confidence it is possible to tell: chocolate - very tasty "medicine" for depression and irreplaceable means against weariness. Scientists have found out that for mood increase simply enough to inhale aroma of chocolate. And English perfumers even have let out scented water with a smell of this divine delicacy. Not without reason Swedish ботаник Charles Linnej named a chocolate tree "cocoa теоброма" that in a literal translation "the food of gods" means.

It is curious that for centuries-old history of the existence chocolate uncountable quantity of times became a theme of numerous treatises and researches, but by anybody from authors to this day has not been definitively proved, whether it is incontestably positive, or the negative phenomenon in a mankind life.

It now many of us do not think of themselves without a chocolate bar, and infinitely various assortment of its most various grades surprises for a long time already nobody. We eat this delicacy in the form of tiles, sweets, various figures, we drink it with chocolate cookies and we do not guess at all that in the history of chocolate there are many examples of the surprising facts visually showing the relation to it of our ancestors.

Several centuries ago, for example, in 1624, bishop Viennese John has forbidden monks - to Franciscans to use liquid chocolate - a sinful drink, "kindling passions". Approximately at the same time in the next Germany physicians began to recommend chocolate in quality общеукрепляющего means, and this product has strongly located on pharmaceutical regiments. In the middle of a XVII-th century one German doctor has written the book that chocolate raises a potentiality at men, and a bit later, the well-known Venetian Casanova, the famous temper of women, has made this theoretical point in practice.

But, as Casanova to chocolate glory tried to assign as miracle means, always were and exist and to this day opponents of this delicacy. In spite of the fact that at the time of the well-known tempter of women many works eulogising medical advantages of chocolate have been written, brisk polemic about influence of chocolate on health of the person proceeds. Modern scientists have found out that in chocolate contains more than 300 elements, and up to the end it is not known, how all of them influence the person.

Last researches of two Californian universities have yielded in this respect opposite results. Under one data, chocolate contains active substances which have weak narcotic influence on a brain, and under certain circumstances can even cause narcosimilar psychoses. So, for example, at chocolate in small quantities there are stimulators of the central nervous system, for example caffeine...........