An 8-year study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine this month by Imre Janszky, et al. has strongly linked chocolate consumption two or more times weekly to 66% less risk of dying from heart disease.
Chocolate consumption and mortality following a first acute myocardial infarction: The Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program was a population-based inception cohort study, following 1,169 non-diabetic patients hospitalized with a confirmed first acute myocardial infarction and self-reporting of chocolate consumption over time. While chocolate consumption had a strong inverse association with cardiac mortality, the eating of other sweets had no statistical bearing on any type of mortality. The researchers conclude that "confirmation of this strong inverse relationship from other observational studies or large-scale, long-term, controlled randomized trials is needed."
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