TasteTV News: Chocolate addiction leads to sweet discovery

Here’s something we already knew at TasteTV, with our Chocolate Television program, and while writing our book, Chocolate French. Per a new study (whic we also endorse), since we eat dark chocolate every day around here:

“They were so addicted, they just could not give up their favorite daily snack — not even in the interest of science.

But chocolate lovers who flunked out of a Johns Hopkins University study on aspirin and heart disease helped researchers stumble on an explanation of why a little chocolate a day can cut the risk of heart attack.

It turns out chocolate, like aspirin, affects the platelets that cause blood to clot, Diane Becker of the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine and her colleagues discovered.

‘What these chocolate offenders taught us is that the chemical in cocoa beans has a biochemical effect similar to aspirin in reducing platelet clumping, which can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, causing a heart attack,’ Becker said in a telephone interview.” Read more

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