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Chocolate can save your sight – perhaps
Good news for chocaholics – but only those who enjoy plain chocolate.
Italian researchers discovered that eating six small squares of dark chocolate a day can boost blood flow to the retina.
The retina is the delicate layer of tissue at the back of the eye, which converts light into signals for the optic nerve to send to the brain. It needs a constant flow of oxygen-rich blood to remain healthy. Retinal diseases are a major cause of sight loss, including age-related macular degeneration, a condition that affects one and a half million people in the UK.
The research, which was published in the journal Scientific Reports, says that “a reasonable amount of flavanols-rich chocolate in healthy subjects has benefic functional short-term effects in retinal vessels.”