Sweden – Eating chocolate can reduce heart attack survivors’ risk of dying, say researchers who followed 1,169 Swedish men and women, ages 45 to 70, from the time they were hospitalized with their first heart attack in the early 1990s.
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Those who ate chocolate two or more times a week were about three times less likely to die from heart disease than those who never ate chocolate, the study found.
Smaller amounts of chocolate also offered some protection.
The study, which appears in the September issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine, is believed to be the first to demonstrate that chocolate can help prevent death in heart attack survivors.
“Our findings support increasing evidence that chocolate is a rich source of beneficial bioactive compounds,” the researchers wrote.
Antioxidants in cocoa likely explain chocolate’s beneficial effects in heart attack survivors, study co-author Dr. Kenneth Mukamal, a researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said.
Those of us who are chocoholics are thrilled about this news!
I always knew that chocolate is good for the mind but didn’t know its good for heart too
chocolate is one of my basic food groups. glad to hear it’s healthy!
I was wondering if someone can let me know if they have some kind of healthy chocolate? maybe in the health food store??
Because if you look the ingredients on the baking chocolate it doesnt look to healthy to me. so is the dark chocolate that they are talking about the same as Shufra Baking Chocolate?
Now we know what to bring when visiting a heart patient in the hospital.
And now we can tell them that it is not only delicious, but “medicine” as well.
So, indulge, but they probably refer to the sugar free bittersweet kind.
I prefer the rich dairy chocolates, although I doubt they have any major benefits.
Moderation is the key in any food we eat.
They always said that chocolate energies a person. I recall my grandmother telling me that they use to hive it to the army. So grandma is always right!
Any one going to Belgium? Go to the chocolate museum in Brugge!
i once heard that the Lubavitcher Rebbe Zt”l, after he had his heart attak in the 70’s, asked his doctor to prescribe chocloate. Anyone know more about that?
Well, thank God, I haven’t had a heart attack, but why take risks? I’m having some chocolate today.
A chocolate a day, keeps the doctor away.
1 oz of dark chocolate a day , at least 60% cocoa, has been shown to lower cholesterol, improve nerve function and reduce risk of heart attack. The thing is, one has to be careful about calories anyway. Ya can’t eat that chocolate on top of a regular day’s food intake. Otherwise one is still going to get fat and deal with other risk factors.