Regular consumption of chocolate has been recently linked to healthy weight, based on a study involving 1,000 adults done at the University of California at San Diego.

Dr. Beatrice Golomb, who led the research which is published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, said: "People have just assumed that because it comes with calories and it’s typically eaten as a sweet… it would inherently have been one way: bad.”

1,000 mostly middle-aged adults participated in the research.  They had their dose of exercise three times a week and their dose of chocolate twice a week. People who had more frequent ingestion of chocolate usually had lower body mass indexes.
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