More good news about dark chocolate

Go ahead, live forever.

Eating dark chocolate daily can reduce cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and strokes in people with metabolic syndrome, i.e. a combination of factors that increase the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.

Dark chocolate with a cocoa solid content of at least 60% is rich in flavonoids that are known to protect the heart. However, the protecting effects have so far only been assessed in short-term studies. To predict the long-term effects, Australian researchers used a mathematical model to predict the long-term health effects and economic effectiveness of eating dark chocolate daily. They recruited 2,013 people who were high-risk candidates for heart disease. 

All participants were hypertensive and met the criteria for metabolic syndrome, yet they had no previous history of heart disease or diabetes and did not take medication to lower their blood pressure. 

The best-case scenario, i.e. a compliance of 100%, meant that eating dark chocolate daily would be able to prevent 70 non-fatal and 15 fatal cardiovascular events per 10,000 people over a 10-year duration. By reducing the compliance rate to 80%, they could potentially prevent 55 non-fatal and 10 fatal events respectively, which is still a substantial reduction and effective intervention. 



I'm definitely gonna comply. I may start right now. BTW, itt's gotta be the dark kind, people, not milk chocolate, and it has to have a cocoa content of at least 60-70% cocoa.

However, any kind of chocolate that comes in ice cream is okay, according to me.