August 18, 2010

Moderate Chocolate Consumption Linked to Lower Risks of Heart Failure, Study Finds

ScienceDaily for August 17, 2010 reported on chocolate and heart failure.

The nine-year study, conducted among 31,823 middle-aged and elderly Swedish women, looked at the relationship of the amount of high-quality chocolate the women ate, compared to their risk for heart failure. The quality of chocolate consumed by the women had a higher density cocoa content somewhat like dark chocolate by American standards. In this study, researchers found: