It turns out eating that Chocolate could actually be helping protect your skin from the damaging
effects of UV radiation. In a small study, researchers experimented with 2 groups of twelve women.
One group drank a hot chocolate beverage containing a special, high flavonoid containing
chocolate each morning for three months. The other drank a low flavonoid hot chocolate beverage.
After 3 months the exposed each woman's skin to UV radiation and assessed their skin reactions.

It turns out that the ones who had the high flavonoid chocolate did not redden nearly as much. This
suggests that this kind of chocolate can provide protection from UV and thus help prevent skin cancer.
Note, this chocolate study is just a preliminary one and the work was partially funded by the
Mars Company, so a healthy dose of skepticism should be heeded. However, there is a nice scientific
theory about why it works and it would be difficult to fake measured results like skin reddening.

The researchers say right now chocolate will not be a direct replacement for standard skin
UV protection lotions . Those are still more effective. But in the future, who knows?

The good new is that if you needed a good reason to eat more candy bars this summer,
you just found it. Who knew that Crunch bar was going to help prevent skin cancer?
God I love science.

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