Beatrice Golomb's team surveyed 1,000 healthy adults and found frequent chocolate eaters consumed more calories and saturated fat yet weighed less, about 5 to 7 pounds less at five servings a week. Frequency, not total amount, tracked with weight.
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Eating cocoa may reduce your risk of colon cancer
Spanish researchers fed rats a diet containing 12% cocoa and exposed them to a chemical that induces colon cancer. They report that regular cocoa counters the inflammatory effect of digestive oxidative stress and may help slow colon cancer progression.
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Chocolate consumption linked to lower heart risk
Pooling seven studies of more than 100,000 people, Oscar Franco's team found the highest chocolate consumers had 37% less cardiovascular disease and 29% less stroke, but no less heart failure. The authors stress no study shows chocolate causes the reduction.
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Chocolate is a heart healthy indulgence
Researchers led by Midori Natsume tested cocoa polyphenols on human liver and intestinal cells and found they raised apolipoprotein A1, a major component of good cholesterol, lowered apolipoprotein B, and appeared to increase LDL receptor activity.
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Chocolate Toddler Formula Pulled After Sugar Uproar
Mead Johnson dropped its chocolate-flavored Enfagrow toddler drink, which carried 19 grams of sugar per serving, after parents and nutritionists protested. Mercola notes the product's first three ingredients are whole milk, nonfat milk and sugar, with vitamins and omega-3 added on top.
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Dark Chocolate Guards Against Brain Injury
Mice given a single dose of epicatechin, a compound in dark chocolate, suffered significantly less brain damage after an induced stroke. The protection held when the compound came 3.5 hours afterward but disappeared at six hours.
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Can chocolate lower your risk of stroke?
A review of just three studies found mixed results on chocolate and stroke: one of 44,489 people tied a weekly serving to 22 percent lower stroke risk, a second tied 50 grams a week to 46 percent lower stroke death, and a third found no link. The author says more research is needed.
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Dark Chocolate: The New Antianxiety Drug
A clinical trial found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate daily for two weeks lowered stress hormones in volunteers who rated themselves highly stressed. A separate product analysis ranked cocoa powder highest in flavanol antioxidants and chocolate syrup lowest.
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Eat chocolate to avoid dying from second heart attack?
Swedish researchers followed 1,169 heart attack survivors for eight years and found those who ate more chocolate were less likely to die of a heart attack. The piece cautions this was not a trial: diets were recorded only at the start, and sicker patients may have stopped eating chocolate.
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