Dark chocolate + Women = Healthy Hearts!

Dark chocolate soothes the soul, this we know. But did you know in moderation it can keep the heart healthy too? This article, Small Amounts of Dark Chocolate May Guard Against Heart Failure, tells the story.

The study authors studied the chocolate-eating habits of 31,823 Swedish women, aged 48 to 83, reported over a period of nine years. Women who ate one to three servings of chocolate (20 to 30 grams) a month had a 32 percent reduced risk of heart failure, compared to women who did not eat the sweet regularly.


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