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ANCHOR LEAD : MORE EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT DARK CHOCOLATE IS GOOD FOR YOU, ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS
More evidence has emerged to boost dark chocolate’s role as a healthy food. Diane Becker, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and lead investigator in a study looking at the effects of dark chocolate consumption, says the food changes some of properties of platelets, components of blood that aid in clotting.
BECKER: What it does is actually make your platelets less sticky, less likely to clot and acts not exactly the same way but a little bit like an aspirin a day does, so if you take in chocolate we know that your platelets are less sticky, we know that your blood pressure is a little bit lower, and actually the lining of your blood vessels functions slightly better. But we’re not talking about chocolate that comes along with all of its friends that include sugar and fat, we’re talking about flavenol rich, pretty pure dark chocolate. :29
Becker says less than half a single size bar of chocolate each day does the trick. I’m Elizabeth Tracey reporting.
