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Dark chocolate lowers clot risks

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found that dark chocolate may help reduce risks of forming blood clots. They claim a bit of dark chocolate each day thins the blood, similar to the way aspirin works.

When conducting the study, the researchers compared blood platelet clotting formation between chocoholics and those who did not eat chocolate for an extended period of time.

The chocoholics’ platelets averaged 130 seconds to form a clot, while the non-chocoholics averaged 123 seconds for clot formation.

Source: MedicalNewsToday.com

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