Chocolate Pursuasive
Attention Getter:
Credibility: Eating chocolate is one of my favorite past times. Just sitting anywhere and eating M&M’s makes my life more enjoyable and I believe that it can have the same effect for everyone else.
Thesis: Chocolate offers to the world physical and emotional benefits, as long as moderation is observed.
Transition: Eating chocolate benefits your health, it has flavones, and it helps people emotionally
1. Chocolate has health benefits.
A. Antioxidant
1. Cleveland Clinic states, “Antioxidants help reduce damage done by free radicals that are formed by normal bodily processes”.
2. Free radicals (unstable oxygen from creation of ATP) causing damage: aging.
3. Stronger than Vit C and E (as AO)
Transition:
B. Flavonol
1. Lowers blood pressure, which improves blood flow
2. Helps lower cholesterol
3. Helps reduce the risk of heart disease
C. Benefits for the brain and heart
1. The New York Times reports that in a study conducted in Barcelona, Spain on the benefits of chocolate skim milk over regular skim milk, “participant had significantly higher levels of good HDL cholesterol.”
Internal Summary: The health benefits of chocolate are also complimented by its well known emotional effects.
D. Emotional benefits a. Comfort food i. Healthmad.com “contains tryptophan -> serotonin, which helps elevate mood and is major player in anti-depressants.” ii. Releases endorphins, feeling of happy b. Study by journal Appetite (1996) iii. Women asked to eat choco bar and rate one hour later iv. Although felt guilt for the calories, conclude women felt better after eating chocolate.
Conclusion: Chocolate is a great benefactor if given the chance. Its health and emotional benefits can clearly boost the life of an individual.
Last Thought: give chocolate a chance. It’s sweet and most importantly its still a vegetable. As your guide I hope you do eat some chocolate
Credibility: Eating chocolate is one of my favorite past times. Just sitting anywhere and eating M&M’s makes my life more enjoyable and I believe that it can have the same effect for everyone else.
Thesis: Chocolate offers to the world physical and emotional benefits, as long as moderation is observed.
Transition: Eating chocolate benefits your health, it has flavones, and it helps people emotionally
1. Chocolate has health benefits.
A. Antioxidant
1. Cleveland Clinic states, “Antioxidants help reduce damage done by free radicals that are formed by normal bodily processes”.
2. Free radicals (unstable oxygen from creation of ATP) causing damage: aging.
3. Stronger than Vit C and E (as AO)
Transition:
B. Flavonol
1. Lowers blood pressure, which improves blood flow
2. Helps lower cholesterol
3. Helps reduce the risk of heart disease
C. Benefits for the brain and heart
1. The New York Times reports that in a study conducted in Barcelona, Spain on the benefits of chocolate skim milk over regular skim milk, “participant had significantly higher levels of good HDL cholesterol.”
Internal Summary: The health benefits of chocolate are also complimented by its well known emotional effects.
D. Emotional benefits a. Comfort food i. Healthmad.com “contains tryptophan -> serotonin, which helps elevate mood and is major player in anti-depressants.” ii. Releases endorphins, feeling of happy b. Study by journal Appetite (1996) iii. Women asked to eat choco bar and rate one hour later iv. Although felt guilt for the calories, conclude women felt better after eating chocolate.
Conclusion: Chocolate is a great benefactor if given the chance. Its health and emotional benefits can clearly boost the life of an individual.
Last Thought: give chocolate a chance. It’s sweet and most importantly its still a vegetable. As your guide I hope you do eat some chocolate