In a recent study, heart attack survivors who ate chocolate two or more times a week ended up reducing the risk of death from heart disease by about three fold when compared to survivors who did not indulge as regularly.
The study, led by Imre Janszky of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, is the first to demonstrate that consuming chocolate can help ward off the threat of death from a heart attack.
"It was specific to chocolate - we found no benefit to sweets in general," said Kenneth Mukamal, a researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a co-author of the study.
"It seems that antioxidants in cocoa are a likely candidate" for explaining the live-saving properties, he went on to claim.
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Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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