Sentences with phrase «lowest chocolate consumption»

The review authors report that every study accounted for chocolate intake in a different way, so they could only compare the groups with highest and lowest chocolate consumption in each study, not specific doses of chocolate.

Not exact matches

Using data from a large - scale study that tracked participants» diet and health information for more than a decade, researchers found an association between moderate chocolate consumption and a lowered risk for atrial fibrillation.

The boxed - chocolates industry in which it operates is unexciting: Per - capita consumption in the U.S. is extremely low and doesn't grow.

When Chartwell's withdrew the chocolate milk, milk consumption plunged and stayed low for weeks until Chartwell's reinstated the chocolate milk.

A study has shown that regular consumption of small doses (20 g every 3 days) of dark chocolate is associated with lower levels of the inflammatory marker C - reactive protein.

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland spent 12 years trying to figure out if a person's daily chocolate consumption could lower their risk of heart disease.

This comes in the wake of over a decade worth of research showing that chocolate and / or cocoa lowers blood pressure, prevents or ameliorates endothelial dysfunction (a primary contributor to atherosclerosis), protects against coronary artery disease, reduces stroke risk, prevents cholesterol oxidation (which converts healthy lipoproteins into artherogenic ones), to name only 5 of 70 + potential health benefits associated with its regular consumption.

The investigators had hypothesized that because chocolate appears to have a positive effect on blood pressure, chocolate consumption would lower the risk of strokes and heart attacks and that is, in fact, what the study found.

Lowering these three risk factors means the consumption of dark chocolate lowered participants» risk of atherosclerosis, a condition that can be caused by arterial stiffness and white blood cell adhesion.

Chocolate consumption has been linked to cardiovascular benefits including better blood pressure control, decreased LDL (or «bad») cholesterol, and a lower risk of heart disease and stroke.

The general rule of thumb is the darker the chocolate bar, the lower the sugar content, and the benefits of the cocoa often outweigh the risks of sugar consumption for healthy individuals.

And still other research suggests chocolate consumption may lower blood pressure, help prevent formation of artery plaques and improve blood flow.

In another research study published in the BMJ, the higher levels of chocolate consumption reduced the risk of cardiovascular disease by 37 % and strokes by 29 %, significantly more than compared to lower levels of chocolate consumption.

For example, if you are following the low - salt advice and you have a hyperactive reward system in the brain, that piece of chocolate cake or candy bar may provide an enhanced reward, leading to an increased consumption of sweets.

Dark chocolate consumption has also been suggested to have lipid modifying effects, decreasing total and low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and increasing high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels.11 However, these changes have also only been explored in short term trials, lasting 2 - 18 weeks.

The blood pressure lowering and total cholesterol lowering effects of dark chocolate consumption provide a non-drug treatment option, either alone or in combination with therapeutic interventions.

The amount is lowest in white chocolate and highest in dark chocolate, but any chocolate consumption is risky in pets because chocolate causes vomiting, diarrhea and hyperactivity.

According to Juliette Jowit in the Guardian, the report says «total food consumption should be reduced, especially «low nutritional value» treats such as alcohol, sweets and chocolates.»