Heart Benefits for Chocolate via NYTimes
More good, and unsurprising news, the New York Times reports on a recent Swedish study indicating that cardiac health improves in patients who eat chocolate regularly.
Here’s an excerpt:
“The scientists followed 1,169 nondiabetic men and women who had been hospitalized for a first heart attack. Each filled out a standardized health questionnaire that included a question about chocolate consumption over the past 12 months. Chocolate contains flavonoid antioxidants that are widely believed to have beneficial cardiovascular effects.
The patients had a health examination three months after their discharge from the hospital, and researchers followed them for the next eight years using Swedish national registries of hospitalizations and deaths. After controlling for age, sex, obesity, physical inactivity, smoking, education and other factors, they found that the more chocolate people consumed, the more likely they were to survive. The results are reported in the September issue of The Journal of Internal Medicine.”
In One Study, a Heart Benefit for Chocolate – NYTimes.com.
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