Chocolate ‘may cut diabetes risk’
July 9, 2008 by admin
Filed under Chocolate and Cancer, Diabetes, Healthy Dark Chocolate, Media Center
The key ingredient is flavonoids
Scientists are to investigate whether eating chocolate can reduce the risk of heart disease in women with diabetes.
Volunteers - postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes - will be asked to eat a bar of chocolate a day for a year.
Cocoa is rich in compounds called flavonoids, which are thought to benefit the heart. Read more
Flavanols Key To Potential Chocolate Benefits
May 14, 2008 by admin
Filed under Chocolate and Smoking, Health, Healthy Dark Chocolate
ScienceDaily (Sep. 29, 2005) — Phytochemicals known as flavanols, which are found in chocolate, fruits and vegetables, can boost the levels of nitric oxide in the blood of smokers and reverse some of their smoking-related impairment in blood vessel function, according to a new study in the Oct. 4, 2005, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
“While the long-term benefits of such improvements remain to be established, we believe that one exciting outcome of this study is the demonstration Read more