date:Jun 21, 2013
mental intervention involved feeding them 45 g of high-polyphenol chocolate per day, while the control intervention involved an equal amount of low-polyphenol chocolate. The researchers found that consumption of high-polyphenol chocolate was associated with an increase in HDL (good) cholesterol and a decrease in the total cholesterol to HDL ratio.
Chocolate also lowers LDL cholesterol
These findings were confirmed and expanded in two other studies conducted over the next two years. The first,