This is the best news since the French Paradox showed us how healthy it is to drink red wine!

Researchers from Sweden followed the survival rate of people, who had already suffered a heart attack. Some ate chocolate; some did not. Eight years of chocolate or eight years of deprivation. The result was a clear correlation with chocolate consumption and survival. Those, who endulged in chocolate delights suffered fewer deaths due to heart attacks than those, who at best could only watch.

This is one of the first studies, which so closely correlates the health benefits of chocolate with real health benefits in people. Of course, more research is required to corroborate these findings and delve further into the mechanism, by which it works.

Janszky I, Mukamal KJ, et al. 2009. Chocolate consumption and mortality following a first acute myocardial infarction: the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program. J Intern Med. 2009 Sep;266(3):248-57