A little chocolate might possibly help you to lose weight (body mass index, exercise)

[Woof]

This is all the health news I need to hear. Since I was young, coffee, tea, wine, and chocolate have moved from the category "vices" to "health foods". I'm going to stop reading health news just in case they try to move some of those back.

Chocolate-eaters have lower body mass: study

Healthy people who exercise and also eat chocolate regularly tend to have a lower body mass index than those who eat the rich brown sweets less often, a US study suggested on Monday.......... full article at Chocolate-eaters have lower body mass: study - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/chocolate-eaters-lower-body-mass-study-201855724.html - broken link)

[Luckyd609]

I think the key words here are 'healthy people who exercise'. Also this wasn't about people losing weight. It was about people who are already healthy and maintaining their weight and chocolate may or may not play a part in it.

[Woof]

Here's a good little summary of what the study shows: ""Adults who consumed chocolate more frequently had a lower BMI than those who consumed chocolate less often," said the study led by Beatrice Golomb and colleagues at the University of California San Diego."

But they do recommend getting the chocolate from hot cocoa which has little fat, and say it's only a first step before they have stricter studies.