BlogsCan Chocolate Make You Slimmer? New research hints at
another potential health benefit of chocolate. Chocolate
continues to gain ground as a health food, this time as a way to
stay slim while enjoying regular decadent snacks. Yes, regular.
A new study found that people who ate chocolate a few times a
week were leaner than those who ate it once in a while. The
study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, compared
the diet, chocolate intake, and body mass index of over 1,000
men and women. The researchers used BMI as an indicator of
whether the participants were overweight or obese. Even when
taking into account other factors, like exercise and total
calories consumed, people who ate chocolate regularly had lower
BMIs. While there was a connection between frequency and
thinness, there was none for quantity. So it’s more important to
eat chocolate throughout the week than to load up on King Size
bars. Previous studies have shown that chocolate has many other
health benefits. Eating chocolate can p