Study: Chocolate protects the heart.

[elleng]

Women who ate an average of one or two servings each week of what is considered high-quality chocolate because it contains a higher density of cocoa had a 32 percent lower risk of developing heart failure, the researchers reported in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure, which is published by the American Heart Association. Those who had one to three servings per month had a 26 percent lower risk. . .

The researchers noted that in Sweden even milk chocolate has a higher cocoa concentration than dark chocolate sold in the United States. Although 90 percent of all chocolate eaten in Sweden during the study period from 1998 to 2006 was milk chocolate, it contained about 30 percent cocoa. U.S. standards require only 15 percent cocoa to qualify as dark chocolate. So American chocolate may have fewer heart benefits and more calories and fat for equivalent servings. In addition, the average serving size for Swedish women in the study ranged from 19 grams to 30 grams. In contrast, the standard American portion size is 20 grams.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2010/08/chocolate_protects_the_heart.html?hpid=topnews

[Warpy]

1. I should live forever, then

because I'm a chocoholic, the blacker and more bitter the better.

[niyad]

2. that makes two of us!!

[wtmusic]

3. Me too.

I live on this stuff...3 bars for $1.79



Mmmm...

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. Yum

:9

[pleah]

4. I heart chocolate!

:P

[Hissyspit]

6. This stuff is good:

New Tree



The Lime & Green Tea Milk Chocolate has 30% cocoa.

[glitch]

7. You should try and get a hold of Green & Blacks 80% chocolate.

They have a bar with ginger bits in it to die for. http://www.greenandblacks.com/

[Duer 157099]

8. That's almost a perfect sentence

Take 3 words: chocolate, protect, heart

Add 1 more innocuous word (the) and you've got the perfect sentence! Who can resist but to respond emotionally to such a proclamation?

[eridani]

9. Just hand over the chocolate--

--and nobody gets hurt!