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NEW RESEARCH BY scientists in Scotland has found that eating chocolate could have some serious health benefits.
The study carried out at the University of Aberdeen concluded that eliminating chocolate does nothing to lower the risk of cariovascular disease – and could in fact help reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Speaking about the research, Professor Phyo Myint from the University of Aberdeen, said, “Our study concludes that cumulative evidence suggests that higher chocolate intake is associated with a lower risk of future cardiovascular events.”
How did all of this work?
The research involved tracking the diets of almost 21,000 adults using food frequency and lifestyle questionnaires.
This group was monitored for 12 years and during that time 14% (3,013) of those involved experienced fatal or non-fatal coronary heart disease or stroke.
Around a fifth of the group said that they did not eat any chocolate and the amount eaten by the rest of the group ranged from very small quantities up to much larger amounts.
It was also found that those who ate more chocolate generally were younger and had a lower weight.
A higher chocolate diet was also associated with higher energy intake and a diet consisting of more fats and carbohydrates and less protein and alcohol.
What were the findings?
The study showed that a higher intake of chocolate was associated with an 11% lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 25% lower risk of associated death.
It found that there was a 9% lower risk of hospital admission or death as a result of heart disease.
These findings factored in other dietary considerations.
It is noted that the study is an observational study so “no definitive conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn” and that food frequency questionnaires often have “a certain amount of recall bias and underestimation of items eaten”.
The research was carried out by scientists from the University of Aberdeen, Manchester, Cambridge and East Anglia, as well as a number of other medical institutions. It has been published online in the journal Heart.
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Had not realised they had not yet provided a replacement mobility allowance for those who require it. Typical government not important as there are no votes in it…..
When it comes to the golden circle the wheels of government can spin very fast…when its the most vulnerable they barely turn at all.
Wonder will they change when they get a spanking on may 23..
Yet Water tax legislation sailed through in record time………………makes you wonder about priorities doesnt it?
It is a pity they would not cut their own mobility allowance as in travel claims just to attend the Dail, their place of work!
Government policy. The weak, the needy and feeble are shoved aside, and put at the back of the Q. Don’t forget the feeble minded weaklings who pretend to govern us subscribe to the Darwinian ethic of, ‘Only the strong survive’. In their world that means only the greedy and their corrupt underlings survive. We can be strong in ways that they will never know about. God Bless you all. Get up now and walk the walk and talk the talk.
Govts do not do planning or forward thinking. That would entail utilising brain cells. Totally alien concept to the powers that be!!!
Disgraceful Gov. has not catered for people with disabilities. Should it really matter if a person was diagnosed with a disability in the last few months as opposited to 13 months ago.
Gov Policy = Ageism and discrimination at its best.
unless they get told by the mafia bosses in brussels or the troika/IMF or the banks these lot in power couldn’t run a decent piss up on st paddys day
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