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Chocolate Lovers Rejoice!

Is eating chocolate good for your heart? According to a study in the Journal of Internal Medicine, it is. Researchers found that eating chocolate at least twice a week lowered the risk of heart-related death following a heart attack by 66 percent.

The scientists examined the chocolate consumption of 1,169 first-time heart attack victims for one year and then followed them for eight years. They found that survival rates increased with higher chocolate consumption.

What is good for your heart is good for your brain, so pay attention to this study. Although it didn’t differentiate between dark chocolate and milk chocolate, I can tell you that dark chocolate contains more brain-friendly antioxidants than milk chocolate.