From the bitter drink first created by the Olmec civilisation of Mexico in 1750BC through to the more familiar bars created ...

Researchers out of Harvard published a new study looking at the impact of eating chocolate on your overall health. And, according to the conclusion, it's great news for those who consume dark ...

However, recent studies suggest that consuming it might not just be okay—it could actually provide notable health benefits. Discover what type of dark chocolate is considered the best ...

For example, there was no statistically significant reduction in type 2 diabetes risk linked to eating chocolate, dark or otherwise, in the Nurse Health Study cohort. In contrast, the benefits of ...

Investigating Dark Chocolate and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes For the new BMJ study, Binkai Liu and her colleagues looked at data collected from the Nurses’ Health Studies I and II cohort and the ...

Is chocolate the newest health food? Well, not exactly — but in what may seem like a surprising result, a new study has found that eating dark chocolate every day could reduce the risk of ...

In contrast, milk chocolate consumption was linked to long-term weight gain, which may contribute to T2D, but not to a reduced risk of the disease. Researchers emphasized the health benefits of ...

“Although it’s higher in fat (50g), the health benefits of dark chocolate, such as polyphenols, are amplified with such a high cocoa percentage, making it the healthiest option here,” she says.

According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2007-08 and 2013-14), 11.1% of US adults ate chocolate regularly, but only 1.4% went for dark (products that had 45% or more ...