UCSD study shows that regular chocolate eaters are thinner
April 3, 2012 •
Katherine Hepburn famously said of her slim physique: “What you see before you is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.” New evidence suggests she may have been right.
Beatrice Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues present new findings that may overturn the major objection to regular chocolate consumption: that it makes people fat. The study, showing that adults who eat chocolate on a regular basis are actually thinner than those who don’t, was published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine on March 26.
The authors dared to hypothesize that modest, regular chocolate consumption might be calorie-neutral – in other words, that the metabolic benefits of eating modest amounts of chocolate might lead to reduced fat deposition per calorie and approximately offset the added calories (thus rendering frequent, though modest, chocolate consumption neutral with regard to weight).
To assess this hypothesis, the researchers examined dietary and other information provided by approximately 1,000 adult men and women from San Diego, for whom weight and height had been measured.
Go to UC Health for the full story, including a video interview with Dr. Golomb.
