Good things come, on rare occasions, in small sweet packages. Exhibit A: As little as 7.5 grams, or 0.3 ounces of chocolate a day has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke by 39 percent. Business Week reports that when researchers at the German Institute of Nutrition analyzed the diet and health habits of 19,357 people, aged 35 to 65, for
at least 10 years, they found that those who ate the most chocolate (an average of 7.5 grams, or
0.3 ounces, a day) had lower blood pressure and were 39 percent less
likely to have a heart attack than those who ate the least amount of
chocolate (an average of 1.7 grams, or 0.06 ounces, a day).
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it seems a bit too good to be true and next week a report will come out saying chocolate causes cancer….but for the moment, hand me that dark semi sweet chocolate bar…thanks
dark chocolate or milk choc?
I would think dark chocolate,they don’t eat much milk chocolate in Europe
oh boy, please read the article. it says one small square of a 3.5 oz bar or 7.5 grams – NOT 100 GRAMS A DAY!!
I’m confused.
“Exhibit A: [eating] As little as 100 grams a day has been shown to…”
But the researchers “found that those who ate the most chocolate (an average of 7.5 grams, or 0.3 ounces, a day”.
Very different amounts. Was there a typo?
7.5 grams is approximately 0.3 ounces, not 3.0 ounces. Three ounces a day would be over a pound a week. Since everything that is good for you is only good for you in moderation, I assume it is supposed to be 0.3 ounces a day, or a couple of ounces a week. I have trouble believing that “those who ate the most chocolate” were only eating 2 ounces a week. It would be nice to know, in this study, how much was too much, so that the benefit disappeared.