Eating Chocolate Sparingly Means Better Cardiac Discipline

A new study, reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, which is a journal of the American Heart Association, shows that middle-aged and elderly Swedish women regularly eating a small amount of chocolate are less susceptible to cardiac failures. However, the quality of chocolate that these women ate came with higher density cocoa content, more like dark chocolate available in America. The study, spanning nine years and based on the participation of 31,823 middle-aged and elderly Swedish women, indicates, interestingly, that only women who consumed this high-quality chocolate in moderation benefited significantly. Others who were more indulgent didn't register as much improvement, possibly because of the extra calories gained from eating too much of these delicacies, according to Murray Mittleman, M.D., Dr.P.H., who led the study. It might be logically inferred that the higher cocoa content in Swedish chocolate is responsible for the improved cardiac health of these women. It may be noted in this context that, unfortunately, heart failure strikes about 1 percent of the American population aged over 65 and the threat hardly shows any signs of remission with each passing year...

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