Chocolates or Sports

Regardless of the reluctance to start doing sports, once a person starts doing sports, that person realises that sports activities help him to feel relaxed and gives pleasure to the person (besides the pain in his muscles). However, both have very different places in people’s hearts and they are also essential for people as long as they are not in excessive amount. The hormones that are secreted by the body while eating chocolates and doing sports are not the same, however; both of the hormones provide a positive feeling like pleasure and happiness to people. For eating chocolate, the process that goes on in the brain is not very different in fact. Nevertheless, it is very common that in a highly stressful situation people tend to more of any kind of food, especially chocolates because they are the ones with the best taste. In a normal life style, nobody spends his whole day by eating chocolate bars or doing sports. What else can give such pleasures to human beings?

. Exercises also alleviates anxiety and depression (Tavris, 1997). Also, a study done with preschoolers show that “children who did aerobic exercises daily for eight weeks not only had better cardiovascular fitness and agility than children who spent the time in free play, but also had higher self-esteem,” (Tavris, 1997). When a person’s muscles are relaxed, the brain realises this relaxation and joy and as a result secretes the kind of hormones that will make the person happier. Those are the moments in which the absence of chocolate bars or doing sports become obvious. While a person is eating chocolate, the person gets excessive energy from the chocolate bar, which may lead to weight gain. For most people both of these activities cause some kind of an addiction. Eating chocolate does not have such long term relaxation effects. For example, when a person tastes a new kind of chocolate bar and likes its taste, it is very likely that the person will want to eat from that chocolate bar again.