Study: Chocolate could reduce heart risk

Associated Press ^ | Mar 30, 2010 | MARIA CHENG

[VRWCmember]

Whoo Hooo! I might never die then.

[VRWCmember]

They found people who had an average of six grams of chocolate per day — or about one square of a chocolate bar — had a 39 percent lower risk of either a heart attack or stroke.

By my calculations, this means I have about a 507% lower risk of heart attack or stroke.

[dearolddad]

Does this mean I have to give up red wine or should I do both?

I'm doing both to be on the safe side.

[CaliforniaCon]

RE: “I’m doing both to be on the safe side.”

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Good for you! I started long ago on the chocolate diet. Ultra dark is best but I like semi-sweet. Had the calcium test of the heart a couple of years back because cholesterol is bizarre — overall high but made more so by amazingly high HDL, the good chol.

Doc said if he were me he’d have the test done — result, at age 55 at the time — was ZERO calcium score — they asked me what I did, diet wise.

I said easy - little red meat, mostly fish/chicken, a little wine and lots of semi-sweet chocolate. The response from the head of the dept. at Cedars-Sinai in LA: “Keep doing that!”

Hilarious.

[dearolddad]

The amount of red wine (Resevetrol)I drink should keep me going to the ripe old age of 125 years at least. The Chocolate will help my heart keep up.

[Stentor]

Death-or-Migraine? I’m thinking. I’m thinking.