Chocolate is healthy
From because of Na is unhealthy. Italian researchers found out that chocolate the cardiovascular system comes to property. However the sweet may be enjoyed only in small quantities, so that it is also actually favorable for the health.
Berlin - to two bits chocolate on the day one may good conscience naschen. 6.7 gram of the sweet are optimal, in order to protect the cardiovascular system - however then only if it concerns not around milk chocolate, but a dark variant, as Italian researchers found out.
Derived the scientists this number from a statistic investigation of well 2000 healthy volunteers, with those them the chocolate consumption with the quantity of the inflammation markers
in the blood compared. High values of these protein molecules are considered as factor of risk for diseases such as Arteriosklerose, cardiac infarct or apoplexy. A moderate consumption of chocolate accompanies against it with clearly lower inflammation values, reports Romina di Giuseppe of the catholic university in Campobasso and its team in the technical periodical “journal OF Nutrition”.
A half bar of dark chocolate is ideal
Basis of the evaluation was the data base of the Moli sani project, a collection of medical and general information about altogether 25,000 volunteer from the Italian region Molise, which was to help to identify genetic and other factors of risk for cardiovascular diseases and cancer. From this data collection the researchers for their current study selected 824 participants, those regularly dark chocolate consumed, as well as 1317 comparison pro gangs, which consumed no chocolate only very rarely or. Additionally by all participants blood tests were inferred and tested on the so-called C-reactive protein (CRP), a protein molecule, which the body forms as reaction to chronic or acute inflammations.
Above all the test persons with a consumption of for instance a half board of dark chocolate per week - according to 6.7 gram per day - exhibited remarkably low CRP values, as the evaluation showed.
More or less chocolate let the positive effect disappear however. The connection remained existing also if the researchers considered the influence of other factors like other nourishing habits or physical movement.
As responsible for the health-promoting effects of dark chocolate are considered the Antioxidantien, particularly Flavonoide contained in the cocoa and other Polyphenole. They can make the aggressive so-called free radicals among other things developing with inflammation reactions innocuous and protect thus the bio molecules of the body - and therefore also the organs - against damage by these reactive connections. (strip packing)
