Chocolate is Good for Your Heart

And it just keeps getting better. We now have a legitimate reason to chocolate on a daily basis.

In this case we need to eat one small square of dark chocolate daily as it has been proven to protects the heart from inflammation and subsequent heart disease. The study is from the Moli-sani Project, one of the largest health studies ever conducted in Europe.

From an article on LiveScience. com the lead author of the study, Romina di Giusepp said: "We started from the hypothesis that high amounts of antioxidants contained in the cocoa seeds, in particular flavonoids and other kinds of polyphenols, might have beneficial effects on the inflammatory state..Our results have been absolutely encouraging: People having moderate amounts of dark chocolate regularly have significantly lower levels of C-reactive protein in their blood. In other words, their inflammatory state is considerably reduced."