Monthly Archive for December 2010
Health Benefits of Cocoa
Published on Thursday, December 23, 2010
A study reported in a journal of the American Heart Association showed that middle-aged and elderly women who regularly ate a small amount of chocolate had lower risks of heart failure. The nine-year study conducted on over 30,000 women examined the relationship between high-quality chocolate consumption and heart failure. The results were positive.
Those who had 1-2 servings of the high-quality chocolate per week showed the best results with a 32% lower risk in developing heart failure. Also, the chocolate they ate had a high-density cocoa content, known as dark chocolate by American standards…
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