Is Chocolate 'Good for you'?
BBC reported that “Eating best quality chocolates could increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke,” As reported on the state, researchers have found that consuming the best quality of chocolate “associates with a 37% reduction in cardiovascular disease”.
The news is based on an analysis that included seven previous studies results. These studies helped to understand how consumption of chocolate related to the risk of heart disease, stroke and metabolic diseases. Although this analysis did showed that the risk of cardiovascular disease was lowered by about a third in the high chocolate consumers compared with the low chocolate consumers, it does not mean that chocolate is “good for you”. This is because the embedding of studies were limited by the designs and methods they employed. Also, each study needed to categorized consumption of chocolate in different ways, making their results hard to combine precisely.
According to these studies we cannot say that chocolate reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. It is also hard to explain how chocolate might reduce risk, for example, does chocolate contains chemicals that are protective, or whether eating chocolate causes people to be less stressed. Chocolate is high in calories, fat and sugar, and can lead to weight gain, which is a known risk factor for heart disease and diabetes. This study does not give enough evidence to suggest that chocolate is protective of the heart.
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