Heart Disease, Diabetes and Stroke: More Chocolate, Less Risk? - ABC News
I really liked this article from ABC that that reported on a new review of published research on chocolate.
The review looked at 7 studies and controlled for age, diet, physical activity, body mass index and smoking and discovered that chocolate consumers had reduced risk for heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
I really like this article because instead of jumping to unfounded conclusions like a lot of the media tends to do, it merely points out that habitual chocolate intake and lower disease risk are correlated; but that it doesn't necessarily mean that that chocolate is the sole cause of the lower risk. Other factors weigh in as well. For example, a there was a study that reported that people that prayed lived longer than people the didn't. But that could also be because people who pray go to church more, are more social and therefore have a social outlet and support. Or perhaps people that pray more experience less tress because of praying. So you can never really say that correlation implies causation, but the research is interesting nonetheless and seems to support past research that has implied similar benefits of chocolate.
