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Yes, you read it right, Chocolate is good for the heart. One of the reasons why you love chocolates is that you know deep down in your heart that it is beneficial for your heart.
It’s not that we need a healthy reason to devour chocolates. But if there is one, why not enjoy it with health benefits. Chocolates have always been connected with love, and now there are scientific proofs that it very well is connected with improving heart functions.
Eating chocolate at least once a week is linked with a reduced risk of heart disease, according to research published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Consuming chocolate more than once a week was associated with an 8% decreased risk of coronary artery disease compared to consuming chocolate less than once a week.
As per Dr. Chayakrit Krittanawong of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, “Our study suggests that chocolate helps keep the heart’s blood vessels healthy.”
Dr. Krittanawong said: “Chocolate contains heart-healthy nutrients such as flavonoids, methylxanthines, polyphenols and stearic acid which may reduce inflammation and increase good cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein or HDL cholesterol).”
More Chocolates or Fewer Chocolates are good?
The actual portion or size of the chocolate that could be beneficial is yet to be determined. But it still appears promising in heart diseases like coronary artery diseases. It is still not clear the precise amount of chocolate that could benefit, and it also doesn’t mean that the more the merrier.
He said, “Moderate amounts of chocolate seem to protect the coronary arteries but it’s likely that large quantities do not. The calories, sugar, milk, and fat in commercially available products need to be considered, particularly in diabetics and obese people.”
In the case of multiple diseases, like in addition to coronary artery diseases if a person is diabetic and obese then chocolate could be a harmful option.
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