{"id":2602,"date":"2025-05-15T14:14:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/chocolate-biscuits-could-help-people-lose-weight\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:14:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:14:23","slug":"chocolate-biscuits-could-help-people-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/chocolate-biscuits-could-help-people-lose-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate biscuits could help people lose weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-15 14:14:23<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Eating chocolate biscuits could aid weight loss in the future. <BR><br \/>\nA group of scientists &#8211; who are inventing snacks to make people feel full &#8211; say that the antioxidants in the cocoa used to make dark chocolate can trigger fullness hormones. <BR><br \/>\nThey then created a special cocoa biscuit to increase the effects and added a bitter extract from the absinthe plant.<BR><br \/>\nThe study involved a pilot group of 11 people who ate the 85g biscuit once a day in the morning and results showed that it appeared to stimulate the same hormones as weight-loss injections as participants reported being less hungry during the day, which researchers say would prevent people from snacking and over-eating.<BR><br \/>\nOne of the hormones triggered is GLP-1, which is targeted by weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro.<BR><br \/>\nStudy author Dr. Flavia Prodam, of the University of Eastern Piedmont in Italy, said: &#8220;All the people who ate the biscuit reported lower hunger before dinner.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It has already been reported that cocoa and dark chocolate have an effect on satiety and in this biscuit with the bitter compound that effect is even higher. I think the GLP-1 receptor could be affected specifically by the bitter compound but we need to investigate that part.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-15 14:14:23 Eating chocolate biscuits could aid weight loss in the future. A group of scientists &#8211; who are inventing snacks to make people feel full &#8211; say that the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}