Reflective Journal: Dark Chocolate Consumption, Stress, and Immunity

This reflective journal details a student's research on the effects of dark chocolate consumption. The student explores the topic's impact on stress reduction, inflammation, memory, immunity, and mood. The research involved identifying opportunities, dividing the project into chapters, and analyzing both primary and secondary data sources, including literature reviews and Gibbs' reflective cycle to understand the subject matter. The student reflects on the challenges faced, such as the vastness of the topic and the complexity of data, and the positive aspects, such as the potential for skill development and increased knowledge. The journal also examines the positive impacts of dark chocolate on an individual's well-being, while also considering the potential negative effects of excessive consumption, such as dependency. Overall, the reflection highlights the student's learning process, the challenges encountered, and the insights gained about the health benefits and potential risks associated with dark chocolate consumption.

Dark chocolate consumption reduces stress and
inflammation, while improving memory,
immunity and mood in common people.

Table of Contents
REFLECTION...........................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8
Books and journals.................................................................................................................8

REFLECTION
I am glad, I got the opportunity to discover and identify the topic of “how chocolate
consumption does reduce the stress and inflammation while improving memory immunity
and mood of a common person”. This research helps me in developing my personal skills
identification of my abilities and capabilities. This research also helps me to increase my
knowledge about the chocolates consumption and behaviour of an individual while
consuming dark now I am able to use all this information for checking my personal
perception about the dark chocolates as well as my skills. Now I am able to use all this
information for checking my personal perception about the dark chocolates as well as my
skills and abilities and powers in a direction of getting desired result binary searching a
product or services. From the above mentioned report examine and sharpen my knowledge
about the consumption of dark chocolate among the people and health related benefits of dark
chocolate in common people. This research also help me to identify the health issues related
to dark chocolate in why individuals why this. This also helps me in identification of the rules
which are related to research methodology (Robinson and Hilli, 2016). By the help of
research I also identify the difference between primary and secondary sources of data and
improve my skills for identification of data, enable me to improve my abilities of handling
qualitative and quantitative data respectively according to their needs. For collecting and
writing the literature review using this researches secondary source of information, the use of
this I also get knowledge about different authors and their prospective view about chocolate
consumption and it’s important in a life of individual.
Gibbs' reflective cycle
Professor Graham ham gives published is reflective cycle in his book learning by doing in
1988. This is the Framework which helpful in guiding the people who want to learns from the
situation and uses the experience regularly especially when they are not doing well in their
task for performance. This model is based on a reflective cycle which includes five basic
points which are description feeling evaluation conclusion and action. This is the Framework
which is based on each and every step.an individual like we can use this model to explore the
situation and individual can use it with someone is he/she training. An individual for
increasing its knowledge and efficiency about a related topic, the individual have to follow
the steps which are mentioned below for increasing its knowledge and improving the
understanding of a related topic (Pullman, 2018). The steps are related to description of the
experience, feeling and thoughts about the experience, evaluation of the experience from both
good and bad perspective, analysing to make the sense of situation properly, conclusion about
what individual learn and what I could done differently and action plan for how can I
individual deal with the similar situation in future or journal changes which can be find by an
individual perfect for situations. In context of this research points are stated below that what I
have to do in this:
Description

For conducting research on the topic dark chocolate consumption reduce the stress and
inflammation while improving memory immunity and moon in a common people identify
different opportunities for conducting this job. Here, I started to distribute this old search in
different parts where I can identify a proper research and achieved goals of the research in an
effective manner. For this I divided the whole report in four chapters the first chapter cover
introduction background of the research and the regional of the research with research
problem and hypothesis. This also includes aims and objective and significance study some
research question. While conducting the research about the topic question are also prepared to
identify important parts in this report (Pianpeng and Koraneekij, 2016). Superconducting
report is also important to adjust timings where a proper is study can be conducted. So, I
divided all parts in time schedules where I can give proper time to each and every question of
the research and accomplish desire results. Further, report divided in chapter 2 which include
the literature review about the problems which are identified and the question which are
related to research. Chapter 3 of this includes research methodology introduction philosophy
approaches design data collection method literature search data analysis ethical consideration
and timeframes which are used in report for making it more effective and providing
information about all the sources which are used and structure which followed by me this
report. Fourth chapter of this report includes conclusion and evaluation on the above research
and possible outcomes which can we drive in future.
Writing style of my research is proper where I use different traditions when they are needed. I
also you talked writing skills where allotment of projections and good use of grammar
wedding hole report and research. This is all because, I have to make coherent peace of work
which will show my efforts and research to uses of this research. I have given enough time
before the deadline to individual writing of sections however I did not a great deal of time to
write something which can impact negatively on my report. I personally assess all the
research more than three times for conducting better results and identify any problem
commission within the report. All report, I presented is happened in my research lab where I
evaluated each and every data by myself for making my research more effective and realistic
not is based on assumptions. I also face some difficulties this research like there is lack of
related data which I can use while studying the behaviour of a common person and
identification of needs related to dark chocolate consumption (Noordegraaf, 2018). I also face
if some difficulties like and interpretation of data which is in complex tablet form and it is
difficult for me to extract it from these complex health-related tables. I also faced some
difficulties which are related to methods which I can use for my research like I got confused
between primary and secondary methods that where I should use the primary methods or I
use the secondary method for collecting the data for this information this is because primary
methods are more realistic and reliable we are secondary methods have to be properly
evaluated and identified and there is no structure for identifying the reliability. Overall, it is a
fun to conduct this research.
Feelings
When I get to know about the research under topic I feel insecure, this is because the topic is
very vast and there are a lot of data and information which I have to evaluate for

understanding the topic, I am also happy because I know that I can use and shop my skills by
evaluating the data which are related to this research there are number of qualitative and non-
qualitative data which are difficult to evaluate but it also give me appreciation that I have to
do this as it will increase my potential for working on research and identify what the new
opportunities I can get for fulfilling my abilities in a context of different research and reports.
After starting the research about the assignment I get frustrated that there are a number of
findings and factor which I have to consider and the task is so long (Lestander, Lehto and
Engström, 2016). Because of the size of projectile started frustrating and this also impacting
on my research I can't find a proper way to identify the proper requirements of search. For
that I took a break for a small period of time where I layer lies that I can work on this report
as this will increase my abilities and I don't want to lose the project. This provides me
effective motivation where I can do this work properly, after motivation I started my work
effectively and first I plan to divide the whole research report in 4 chapters. By which I can
easily evaluate the report and divide method task and time accordingly (Jessop, 2019). If any
other person tries to do this research, you will definitely feel in this situation this is because
there are a number of analysis data which I have to evaluate and it is not suitable for every
researcher because of abilities and skills. If any other person stuck in this situation then he
will lose his confidence and motivation. The other person can be easily given up on this
situation as it is worse and there is no way to get it from out of it. If I consider myself in this
situation then I am at a good place this is because I have proper plant to execute and identify
the research topic which is also related for me. This is because it helps me in identifying the
proper tools and analysis techniques which can be used in this type of research which will
also helpful in my future plants where I want to execute it in other situations. The situation is
in my control, this is all because my hard work and motivation which I derived from small
things as I know how to identify the motivation.
Evaluation
This part of the model states that individual can evaluate how the work was gone we can ask
different question from himself that what are the good and bad aspects of this experience,
what went well and what did you so well also ask that what did he at other people contribute
to the situation which are in positive or negative for a particular research. If it is talk about
me, then I realised there are number of good and bad experience within this report which are
evaluated on the related wireless charging identified number of impacts which can be derived
from the construction while searching identified number of impacts which can be derived
from the consumption of dark chocolate (Gibbs, 2018). Positive impact of the dark chocolate
on a person within this research is that it will reduce the stress and improve the memory and
immunity of an individual where it and perform better on its daily working routine. This will
also impact on individuals permanent life where will the regular consumption of dark
chocolate it can boost immunity where it can find better options for growth and development
as well as it is it make easy to fight from number of disease which are going in a market. I
personally believe that the consumption of dark chocolate will also reduce the stress because
while I am researching about the dark chocolate I found number of facts and findings which
states that it is impactful in reducing the stress of an individual. There are some negative

points also which identified while doing the research and these are that long term topics
which are related to health of an individual are also interlinked with their behaviour. From all
research and finding it can be concluded that dark chocolate will only impact in an individual
stress if it take it seriously as well as on regular basis. This is because it open the mind and
moon of an individual where there is increased stimulation of glucose from brain to all body
parts which make an individual active and decrease the chances of stress as a human being
can easily find number of options because of increase capacity of their brain. But in research
it is also identified, more consumption of dark chocolate can make an individual dependent
on this and in future it can act as a drug which will become habitually and impact negatively
on body and brain capacity (Gibbs and Coffey, 2000). The good things are the positive
impacts of dark chocolate and its consumption on mind memory health of an individual but
the negative impacts of obesity over dependency and regular habits which can decrease the
capability of an individual. all the things which are directly related and associated with topic
of the dark chocolate injection which help in reduction of stress and inflammation and
improve the memory immunity and mood of a common person.
Analysis
This is that type of process where individual has to analyse change the sense of what
happened. Until now individual have to focus on the details around what happened in the
situation. The individual have a chance to get evaluation of different aspect which are gone
well for work and ask itself about the correction and why this targets are going when are
poor. Here individual looking to include admit literature where is that white thing well or not
well. What he can do for making the sense in the situation and what knowledge in process
can help me in understanding the situation correctly. In context of my research, examine all
these things very well where I classify them differently well and non-well things. For me the
good things and the research and methodology another aspect which I used to identify
different facts and finding related to the research.my best part is literature review as I love to
read different authors and identify their finding and facts related to topics of my research. I
classified the research five questions which are about the topic given to me for conducting
and identify different things related to topic (Flick, 2018). The for the creation examine from
differently richest our knowledge about the dark chocolate consumption among the people,
health benefits of dark chocolate for normal people, analysing the health issues in which dark
chocolate should be avoided by individuals, the ways to identify the impact of consuming
dark chocolate for reducing stress and inflammation while improve in the memory immune
system and moon and an individual and in the end how to determine effect of consuming dark
chocolate in mental health problems. These are the good part of me as I got number of
information about these function in literatures which I used to identify the data. Real number
of authors who given the idea and suggestion about the topic which are related to dark
chocolate consumption by an individual this data is the good part understand full information
about this where I can write it on my own and on the basis of other authors which are famous
for their findings in this concept. Also helpful evaluate performance and understanding
related to the concept which increase my literature review skills and findings. The part of
research methodology also good for me to identify as this is my best area of working where I

can easily identify the research design approach and philosophies which can be used in the
given project. The bad part of this research according to me is the data collection method
analysis of data and ethical considerations which I have to use in a given time phrase. While
using ethical consideration like privacy of data security of other individuals and practical
consideration make it difficult for me to use data properly this is because there are number of
ethical consideration which can be violated if I use the as it is the data in this given report on
the related topic. Difficult for me to use the ethical considerations while performing the
research on the report (Clements and Lange, 2018) . Data collection method also impacts me
while doing the research. This is because I got confused between the primary and secondary
sources of data with that from where I can proper data which is reliable as well as realistic for
making an effective research on a given topic. It is also essential for me to identify the proper
stationery which will be used for conducting a research within fixed time frame. I also face
problem while dividing the task in the provided time frame this is because the time is limited
and data is lost and that's this can decrease the quality of my research which I have to identify
properly and make amendments according to that given time limit. From the above situation,
I can easily identify that there are some difficulty as well as easy tasks in a research which I
can perform. For this I have to use proper methods which I learn from past experience and
situations. This method will also help me in identifying the academic literature and the proper
code of conduct which can be used in the reports like this. Also, sharp my future skills and
ability where I can easily understand about the related of the topic and use this skill in other
research which I have to do for in future.
Conclusion
If I inspect the situation properly then it can be concluded that I use a proper method
for solving the situation. This all because the motivation I got from taking a break. The
situation is a difficult task where no one can perform effectively because of huge water and
large availability of data and confusion between methods of identification (Bass, Fenwick
and Sidebotham, 2017). how are distributed the work and different categories of chapters
where I can identify and make the research more effective, is a good way which taught me
many things like distribute the work, take motivation from small things, identify the perfect
part which you can do as fast as possible with full effectiveness and efficiency, use skills and
abilities according to the situation, research about difficult situation and use a suitable method
of understanding the situation like confusion between the use of data and allocation of time.
Identify different alternative and make a corrective action (Banks, 2018). These all will
helpful in making the situation favourable where the research can be done in an effective way
for achieving the desired outcomes. There are number of skills which can be used by me for
solving this problem. The development of this skill is important because there are number of
future opportunities which I have to take for solving problems like this. The skills which I
have to develop for solving these types of situations are understand complete data and
Combining it in a prescribed form. This will also increase my efficiency to understand the
data as well as increased my ability to differentiate the different data within a single table.it
also sharpen my identifications kill where I can divide or manage the data individually by my
strength and weaknesses.

Action plan
If I will get this golden opportunity in next time to work on research like it which has number
of aspects and interesting topic. I will do the same thing of dividing the report in different
categories according to my strength and weakness. This is because it is an important aspect to
know about the strength and weakness of your abilities to work on a specific project. This
reflection will be my base finding about the next research where I remember this for next
meeting, I will properly define all the tasks and activities which are assigned to me in the
report where I can identify the different situations and follow them effectively. For that report
I will also use the division of work scientifically where I will categorise each task in my own
strength and then research on a potential data (Ardian, Hariyati and Afifah, 2019). Next time
I will use both qualitative and quantitative data where I will focus more on identification of
tabular data and making it useful in the research this is because from this report I understand
that it is essential to use tabular data.it doesn't matter that they are complex and not easy to
understand but the information which tablet data provides is in a short but proper manner
where tableau data with quantitative aspects are more effective which bring specialisation in
report by specifying the content as well as direct understanding of information to receiver. If I
get the opportunity for search on the topic like this I will use secondary data as a main source
of information where I regularly check all the information validity and reliability for using
them within the report. I will develop the required skill which I am losing in this report and
will further improve the research technology where I will get more favourable to the
weakness which I am pursuing right now. I will try to remove my weaknesses completely for
making the search more effective and achieve the goals and objective of the research on time.
This is my prime objective to remove my all weakness and act accordingly in the next
opportunity where I can use my improve skills abilities and objectives for achieving the goals
of research. I will make sure that I will act differently next time on the situation by improving
my skills and abilities which will help me in regulating task and performing effectively by
using different techniques and tools my experience of this time will also help me in changing
my attitude and function to word the particular topics.

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