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Michael explores the surprising benefits of trading your usual sweet treat for two pieces of dark chocolate a day – helping your heart and your brain.

Could eating two squares of dark chocolate a day really help you reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease - and enhance blood flow to your brain? In this episode, Michael Mosley champions the wonders of chocolate. With the help of Professor Aedín Cassidy at Queen's University Belfast, he reveals the secret ingredients behind the benefits and why we should start to embrace the bitter taste of high cocoa chocolate.

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Sun 9 Nov 202519:45
BBC Radio 4

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