Chocolate Linked to Heart Health
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Eating dark chocolate may protect your heart. Mary B. Engler and her colleagues at UC San Francisco fed 1.6-ounces of dark chocolate to 22 volunteers daily for two weeks. Half received bars containing dark chocolate’s typically high levels of flavonoids, half placebo bars.
Those in the high-flavonoid group showed a significant relaxation of blood vessels compared with tests done before chocolate consumption.