We think that everybody know that chocolate, in addition to proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, contains other substances that have a physiological effect on the body.
This, in particular is the caffeine which is in chocolate is small enough, compared with tea or coffee and hot chocolate, quite a lot of theobromine, a substance similar to caffeine in structure and effect. However, theobromine acts on the person is much weaker and the reason is that absorbed from food theobromine very quickly destroyed by the enzyme system (of course, if liver is healthy).
Interestingly, many animals do not produce sufficient enzymes metabolizing theobromine. So safe for humans dose of chocolate are toxic to these animals. The body’s response to theobromine is similar to the reaction to other stimulant, and, depending on the dose, can vary from increased heart rate and pressure up to internal bleeding or stroke.
In particular, large doses of chocolate can be fatal to Pets such as cats, dogs, horses, parrots. For example, the lethal dose for cats is about one chocolate bar.
However, for people suffering from diseases of the liver, theobromine, and caffeine can be just as dangerous, if the stimulator does not have time to decompose due to the lack of enzymes. Known, for example, the case of death of the person from soft candy with caffeine. The deceased, who suffered from alcoholic liver cirrhosis, the concentration of caffeine in the blood after eating several packages of these candies became deadly…
About more foods prohibited for cats watch in the video below:
7 Foods You Should Never Feed Your Cat
