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Chocoholics: Science Wants You

Scientists hope chemical compound holds key to curbing heart disease

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(Newser) – A bar of chocolate a day may keep heart disease away, Reuters reports—or so goes the theory British scientists want to test by recruiting 150 postmenopausal women willing to do their part for science. Eating one bar each day for a year will help study whether a key chemical compound can curb heart disease risk for menopausal women with type 2 diabetes.

At the study's core is a super-charged chocolate bar packed with 30 grams of flavonoids, eaten daily by half the group; the other women will chomp on normal chocolate. Previous studies have pointed to dark chocolate's health benefits, though some experts caution the positives might be overshadowed by the sweet's high fat and sugar content.

In this picture made available, Friday Feb. 22, 2008, by Foto Sport Studio, Italian pastry chefs from the Club Pasticcieri Italiani, work on their lifesize model of a Formula One Ferrari F2008 racer made entirely of chocolate, in Sorrento, near Naples southern Italy. In a statement the culinary club said...
In this picture made available, Friday Feb. 22, 2008, by Foto Sport Studio, Italian pastry chefs from the Club Pasticcieri Italiani, work on their lifesize model of a Formula One Ferrari F2008 racer made...   (AP Photo/Foto Sport, HO)
UK researchers are looking for volunteers to eat chocolate daily to test a theory about whether a chemical compound reduces some risks of heart disease.
UK researchers are looking for volunteers to eat chocolate daily to test a theory about whether a chemical compound reduces some risks of heart disease.   (KRT Photos)
Scientists are hoping that cocoa's flavonoid-rich properties will hold the key to curbing heart disease for menopausal women with type 2 diabetes
Scientists are hoping that cocoa's flavonoid-rich properties will hold the key to curbing heart disease for menopausal women with type 2 diabetes   (KRT Photos)
Dark chocolate may be just the thing for reducing the risk of serious heart disease.
Dark chocolate may be just the thing for reducing the risk of serious heart disease.   (KRT Photos)
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