Choc a day 'keeps heart pumping'

03 May 2016 - 08:55 By Adam Boult

If you are a chocoholic and concerned that your sweet tooth could be playing havoc with your health prospects, a new study in the British Journal of Nutrition features some good news for you.Eating chocolate every day could help prevent type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance - a well-established risk factor to cardiovascular disease.Researchers at the Luxembourg Institute of Health, the University of Warwick Medical School, the University of South Australia and the University of Maine studied data from 1153 people aged 18 to 69 - all participants in the Observation of Cardiovascular Risk in Luxembourg study.Those who ate 100g of chocolate a day, about a bar, were found to have reduced insulin resistance and improved liver enzymes.Researchers said cocoa-based products may represent an additional dietary recommendation to improve cardio-metabolic health but the results needed to be supported by robust trial evidence. - © The Daily Telegraph..

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