Chocolate cuts death rate in heart attack survivors


	Chocolate cuts death rate in heart attack survivors

Kelika

8-13-2009 10:13 AM

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8-13-2009 11:58 AM

wiganfootie

To the shop here i go!!

8-13-2009 1:01 PM

mcsmithblack

Yup, we all knew it!

8-13-2009 1:29 PM

carrerinyes

EAT CHOCOLATE
Sorry, what I meant to say was simply - eat chocolate.

8-13-2009 4:59 PM

debbyski

YAY

8-13-2009 7:22 PM

shaor

Wow, am going shopping to fill my bar fridge!

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<SPAN id="lw_1250161658_0" class="yshortcuts">Heart attack survivors</SPAN> who eat chocolate two or more times per week cut their risk of dying from <SPAN id="lw_1250161658_1" class="yshortcuts">heart disease</SPAN> about threefold compared to those who never touch the stuff, scientists have reported.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090813/hl_afp/healthdiseaseheartchocolate">Smaller quantities confer less protection, but are still better than none, according to the study, which appears in the September issue of the <SPAN id="lw_1250161658_2" class="yshortcuts">Journal of Internal Medicine</SPAN>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090813/hl_afp/healthdiseaseheartchocolate"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/EFD98D09-72F3-409A-BA3D-5BAC6DE24529" alt="Chocolate 'cuts death rate' in heart attack survivors" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090813/hl_afp/healthdiseaseheartchocolate"><P>
<SPAN id="lw_1250161658_8" class="yshortcuts">Antioxidants</SPAN> are compounds that protect against so-called <SPAN id="lw_1250161658_9" class="yshortcuts">free radicals</SPAN>, molecules which accumulate in the body over time that can damage cells and are thought to play a role in heart disease, cancer and the <SPAN id="lw_1250161658_10" class="yshortcuts">aging process</SPAN>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CCD0233E-B0E1-40E1-897C-A00A1F1C5CD1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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