Chocolate Models - Can Chocolate Make You Smarter?
Posted by Chocoholic on August 23rd, 2008
There are so many types of chocolate models to choose from. The variety of chocolate is truly only where your mind limits you. Crazy to say, but the one thing society has mastered is chocolate. Chocolate dates back to approximately 1100 BC when it's earliest use was recorded. It comes from many raw and processed foods produced from seeds of the tropical cacao tree. Cacoa has been cultivated for a least three millennia, and there's so much variety to choose from, you could spend your life testing it all and finding a favorite! Hey nobody said you had to declare a favorite, just enjoy them all!
Finding the best chocolate can be a rewarding experience, or so it seems. Searching and trying all sorts of different kinds can be a tough task, well maybe not that tough for some people! Although it may seem fun to eat over two hundred different kinds of chocolate, you may just decide to slim down that list a bit.
To name a few, you can choose from
Belgian Chocolate
Milk Chocolate
Dark Chocolate
Chocolate Bars
Chocolate Fudge
Chocolate Truffels
Sugar-Free Chocolate
Organic Chocolate
Chocolate Fondue
and the list of chocolate models and types goes on!
Chocolate Candy Can Help You Study
Remember the study where a scientist named Pavlov taught a dog to connect the ringing of a bell with feeding time? When the bell would ring, the dog would eat, and eventually the ring alone caused the dog to salivate. Well, that was a major breakthrough in how our brains operate; even though the study was done on a dog. We too can be taught to associate certain things and these associations can be used to remember things, such as when studying for a test. Apparently you can use chocolate candy to help you get better grades on a test or just better grades in general? How? Chocolate can be used as a mental market since the smell and taste of it alone is so strong, helping you remember things you normally wouldn't easily be able to. Every model and type of chocolate you can come up with can be used to cause this result. Pick your favorite; chocolate mints, chocolate bars, chocolate covered strawberries, whatever you want!
Just the Smell of Chocolate
Use the example of your preparing for a math exam. You have to remember a certain theorem, such as the Pythagorean Theorem, but you just can't seem to make it stick in your brain. However, you take out a piece of chocolate candy, such as a candy bar, and you smell it as it reaches your mouth. Although you eat the chocolate it will be the smell that can cause you to remember that theorem for later. The next day, you're taking the test when you forget that the rest of the candy bar was left in your backpack. It's all melted now but you happen to catch a whiff of it. The smell of the chocolate can bring you right back to the day before when you were staring at that theorem. The smell of chocolate becomes the reminder you need to trigger that hard to learn theorem for your test.
The Smell & Taste of Chocolate
Of course this theory is just related to chocolate, you can do this with anything, fruit, good smelling incense, or anything else to that effect, but chocolate candy has such a strong and distinctive smell, and it's so addictive, that it will definitely help you remember what you need to if you smell it while you're studying and then smell it again while you're taking a test.
In Moderation
Remember that chocolate candy, if eaten too much, can make you gain weight and it's just not that good for you to eat too much of it. However, if you can manage to just smell it, or get something such as a scratch and sniff sticker that smells like it, you can use that to your advantage. Eaten in moderation, chocolate candy is fine, and it can help you get good grades; but you don't want to sacrifice your weight just to get good grades by constantly eating chocolate. Plus anyone who happens to be allergic to chocolate, better use another treat for this experiment.
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