Lower your stroke risk—eat some chocolate!

“Take one chocolate bar a week for a healthy heart.” This advice isn’t being given out yet by our doctors, but researchers at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute found that men who ate the most chocolate—about 2.2 ounces per week—had a 17% lower risk of stroke than men who ate little or no chocolate. Combining this research with four previous studies, including a nearly identical study on women, and reanalyzing the results showed that men and women who ate the most chocolate had a 19% lower risk of stroke compared to those who ate the least chocolate.
Source: Dental Abstracts - Category: Dentistry Tags: Extracts Source Type: research