Dark chocolate: Is it in you?

Chocoholics were given further reason to rejoice when a small clinical study showed that dark chocolate improved the function of blood vessels.

“In this sample of healthy adults, dark chocolate ingestion over a short period of time was shown to significantly improve [blood vessel] function,” said Dr. Valentine Yanchou Njike of Yale Prevention Research Center, a study co-investigator.

The results, presented at the annual American College of Cardiology scientific meeting in New Orleans, add to mounting evidence of the health benefits of dark chocolate.