Dark chocolate helps boost body and mind

Posted on 2008-07-06 20:00:00 in Cardio-Vascular | Diabetes | Dietary Supplementation | Mental Health |

Dark chocolate can help improve overall wellbeing and contains a variety of health boosting properties, it has been claimed.

Nutritionist Henrietta Norton said that dark chocolate still offers the endorphin releasing sensation of chocolate and yet "because it contains a range of health benefits as well as being lower in sugar [than milk or white chocolate], it's actually supporting your health".

The BBC recently reported that scientists are in the process of investigating whether eating chocolate can help reduce the risk of heart disease in women with diabetes.

Previous studies have shown that women who eat chocolate are at decreased risk of developing pre-eclampsia.

And in 2006, research conducted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that just a few squares of chocolate a day can almost halve the risk of death by heart attack in some men and women, by decreasing the tendency of platelets to clot in narrow blood vessels.ADNFCR-1506-ID-18673168-ADNFCR

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