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The article I choose is about chocolate. The article talked about advatages and benefits when we take chocolate. The benefits of chocolates comes from inside of chocolate where from article say chocolates contain compounds called flavonoids that can help maintain a healthy heart and good circulation and reduce blood clotting and from that Carl Keen, a nutritionist at the University of California said "More and more, we are finding evidence that consumption of chocolate that is rich in flavonoids can have positive cardiovascular effects”.

From my knowledge, chocolate make person soul happy. Then, from physicology opinion the soul happy comes from our heart so it is good for our healthy heart. The article also said "results lead us to believe that chocolate may contribute to a healthy, well-balanced diet". I agree with that statement because chocolate has low dose-aspirin.I think this is a good article because the statement give with evindence.

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CHOCOLATE CONTAINS COMPOUNDS called flavonoids that can help maintain a healthy heart and good circulation and reduce blood clotting — which can cause heart attacks and stroke. “More and more, we are finding evidence that consumption of chocolate that is rich in flavonoids can have positive cardiovascular effects,” Carl Keen, a nutritionist at the University of California, Davis, said at a science conference. Keen’s research was funded by and conducted in conjunction with confectionery maker Mars Inc. “We not only have observed an increase in antioxidant capacity after chocolate consumption, but also modulation of certain compounds which affect blood vessels,” he said. Antioxidants such as vitamin C reduce the damage of cancer-causing charged particles in the body. Platelet activation is thought to be an important risk factor in blood clotting. Keen and his colleagues measured the impact of chocolate on platelets in the blood and presented their findings to the British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Glasgow. The researchers collected blood samples from volunteers who ate 25 grams, or slightly less than an ounce, of chocolate with a high flavonoid content and other volunteers who ate bread. They took blood samples from both groups two and six hours after they ate the chocolate and bread to measure their platelet activation.

Volunteers who ate the chocolate had lower levels of platelet activity, while the scientists found no change in the group that ate the bread. Keen said the results of the study supported earlier research that showed that cocoa acts like low-dose aspirin, which helps to reduce blood clotting. “These results lead us to believe that chocolate may contribute to a healthy, well-balanced diet,” Keen added.