Chocolate good for you, doctors say.
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GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 3 — Good news for chocoholics. The treat favored by millions not only tastes delicious but is healthy for you, U.S. researchers said Monday.
CHOCOLATE CONTAINS COMPOUNDS called flavonoids that can help maintain a healthy heart and good circulation and reduce blood clotting — which can cause heart attacks and stroke.
“More and more, we are finding evidence that consumption of chocolate that is rich in flavonoids can have positive cardiovascular effects,” Carl Keen, a nutritionist at the University of California, Davis, said at a science conference.
“We not only have observed an increase in antioxidant capacity after chocolate consumption, but also modulation of certain compounds which affect blood vessels,” he said.
Antioxidants such as vitamin C reduce the damage of cancer-causing charged particles in the body.
Platelet activation is thought to be an important risk factor in blood clotting.
Keen and his colleagues measured the impact of chocolate on platelets in the blood and presented their findings to the British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Glasgow.
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MSNBC/Reuters
GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 3 — Good news for chocoholics. The treat favored by millions not only tastes delicious but is healthy for you, U.S. researchers said Monday.
CHOCOLATE CONTAINS COMPOUNDS called flavonoids that can help maintain a healthy heart and good circulation and reduce blood clotting — which can cause heart attacks and stroke.
“More and more, we are finding evidence that consumption of chocolate that is rich in flavonoids can have positive cardiovascular effects,” Carl Keen, a nutritionist at the University of California, Davis, said at a science conference.
“We not only have observed an increase in antioxidant capacity after chocolate consumption, but also modulation of certain compounds which affect blood vessels,” he said.
Antioxidants such as vitamin C reduce the damage of cancer-causing charged particles in the body.
Platelet activation is thought to be an important risk factor in blood clotting.
Keen and his colleagues measured the impact of chocolate on platelets in the blood and presented their findings to the British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Glasgow.
Want to learn more?
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Alien / Soup Administrator
"Meet me at the waterfront, after the social." -Sleepaway Camp
"Shaniqua don't live here no mo'! Is Shaniqua there? Hell no!"
