A Study I’d Volunteer For

I just found a call for a study I’d volunteer for but – alas – I don’t fit the criteria, nor do I don’t live in Norwich, Norfolk in the United Kingdom.

Researchers there are looking in to the health effects of dark chocolate and they’re recruiting 40 non-smoking women, 75 years or younger, who are postmenopausal (no menstrual period for at least a year), who have type 2 diabetes, and who have been taking cholesterol-lowering medications. The goal is to find if specially made chocolate, with flavonoid compounds, helps decrease the chances of the women developing heart disease.

The trade-off for eating chocolate every day is that the women have to fill out questionnaires about their health, have a scan of their arteries, and have regular urine and blood tests. A similar study started one year ago with 150 participants and their study is drawing to a close.

Definitely one of the more appealing studies I’ve read of so far.

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