Chocolate and Women

"I can hear it calling my name.." said the girl watching hopelessly at the chocolate-cake on the table.

"There is something really wrong with you" answered her brother while swallowing a piece of ham.

I experienced the situation above this Christmas holiday and the difference between my brother and me caught my attention. Then I started asking friends of mine how do they feel about chocolate it really turned out that this sweet temptation is much more irresistible for women than it is for men. There is even a study which shows that a third of the women dream about chocolate during the day, compared with 11% of the men. But what actually is the reason?

It turned out that many researches have been done and here are the reasons I found most  interesting and likely.

• Chocolate releases dopamine (a substance which peaks during orgasm) in the female brain.
• Female's cyclic rise and fall of hormones such as estrogen and progesterone trigger a craving for chocolate.
• It’s associated with love and romance. That could be another reason why women particularly love chocolate: deep down, it makes them feel loved, cared for, and pampered.
• When women eat chocolate it affects the part of the brain which regulates sexual desire. Recent studies have shown that women who eat a little bit of chocolate a day have significantly more sex than women who don’t.
• Chocolate is possible to be so desirable for women because it is a forbidden pleasure to those on diets.
• During menstruation, women might reach out to chocolate to increase their magnesium levels as chocolate has very rich magnesium level. Magnesium helps the powerful uterine muscles relax, reducing cramping. It also helps relieve the PMS or menstrual headaches. Menstrual fatigue is another common complaint of women that magnesium can help relieve, though the exact mechanism is uncertain.
• The feminine "me-time" - definitely makes a lot of sense. This is the time when women are heartbroken in pajamas eating chocolate. Maybe we hope that the tryptophane in it would increases our brain's serotonin levels and make us feel happier. 
• Another theory which explains the difference in the food preferences of men and women states that during the human evolution men were hunters, while women were gathering fruits and vegetables.

After all, no matter what your sex is, eating /normal amount of/ chocolate will affect positively your health and mood. So, eat chocolate and feel good! :))

The person I am

It is definitely a great adventure to be a teenager. During this colorful part of my life a lot of questions appeared in my tiny head. The one, that interested me the most, was related to my personality.
I think my childhood had a great deal of influence on the person I became. I was the child, every mother wants to have. I was well-behaved, never had problems in school, teachers were very happy with my work, had no issues with other children. In home, I helped my mother a lot - with cleaning, cooking and all those house stuff. I behaved perfectly.
However, later in my life I realized that I had one big, fat problem - I was shy. The second problem was that I didn't realized it until I became 9th grade and fell in love with.. a guy.. maybe for the first time it was for real. Let me explain how bad the situation was. I liked him a lot, eventually it turned out that he liked me too. The greatest coincidence that could happen to a teenage girl. Everything was amazing, I was the happiest girl in the world. BUT when we finally spent some time together, I saw that I couldn't behave like me around him, I couldn't talk, I couldn't think. It was like someone put a ball in my throat and paralyzed my brain function. When everything fell apart, obviously why, and I was heartbroken :D /yeah, it sounds funny now/, I realized that the problem was me or more correctly my shyness.
Why am I such a person? I don't want to be shy! I want to be talkative, outgoing. I don't want to give such a big importance to such a small thing like a boy. I don't deserve to be unhappy because of him.
That was the moment when the process began.
I saw myself in a different light. I was the most important person in my new world. My happiness, my well-being. I realized that if I don't make myself feel good, no one will do it for me. I realized that I should become a little selfish, should care less about the other, unimportant people. I had to understand what is important for me. Well, it is my lovely family and my dear friend. They actually helped me a lot to become the person I am now.
It took me a lot of time. I had to read a lot of books and articles, had to meet many different people, make some mistakes, learn from the consequences.
But I think I've made it. I am actually who I wanted to be in 9th grade - smiling, talkative, a little selfish, not caring about the opinion of others, especially boys. The only boy I care about is my brother. I feel good in my skin. I love the person I am now.
If there is something that you don't like about yourself, you should definitely change it. You are the one to do it. Don't waste your time in skin, which is not your size.