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Eating Chocolate, A Little Each Week, May Lower The Risk Of A Heart Flutter

The latest evidence that a chocolate habit may lower your risk of heart disease: A study finds people who ate small amounts of chocolate several times a week had a lower risk of atrial fibrillation.
Source: Daniel Fishel for NPR

There's a rich body of evidence that links chocolate to heart health.

Now comes a new study that finds people who consume small amounts of chocolate each week have a lower risk of developing atrial fibrillation, a heart condition characterized by a rapid or irregular heartbeat.

"The rate of atrial fibrillation was 20 percent lower for people consuming, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The findings are in the journal

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