Chocolate Helps Body Screen Sun and Keeps Skin Smooth

Yes. It’s true, Maybe. According to this piece in Science News, German researchers may have shown that ingesting types rich in cocoa solids and flavonoids—dark chocolate—can fight skin cancer. Scientists at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf asked 24 women to add cocoa to their breakfasts every day for about 3 months. Half the women drank hot cocoa containing a hefty dose of flavonoids,
natural plant-based antioxidants that research has suggested prevent
heart attacks. The remaining volunteers got cocoa that looked and
tasted the same but that had relatively little of the flavonoids. Science News reports that at the end of the trial, each of the women was irradiated with slightly more ultraviolet light than had turned her skin
red before the trial began. Researchers found that the skin of the women who had received the flavonoid-rich cocoa
did not redden nearly as much as did the skin of recruits who had drunk
the flavonoid-poor beverage. Women getting the abundant flavonoids also
had skin that was smoother and moister than that of the other women. Wait. It gets better. Read more in Science News.