More good news for those looking to justify eating chocolate — a new study shows cocoa may help fight obesity-related inflammation diseases, such as diabetes.
Researchers at Penn State fed mice a high-fat diet. Then, some of the mice were given a cocoa supplement, while others weren’t. After a 10-week period, the mice that ate the human equivalent of 10 tablespoons of cocoa powder had less obesity-related inflammation than the mice who didn’t, according to a report released in the online version of the European Journal of Nutrition.