Lots of newspapers have become very excited because a study has found that people who eat chocolate are less likely to have strokes and heart disease.
The research is a meta-analysis published in the journal Heart, and it has indeed found a link between eating chocolate and reduced risk.
The study found that people who say that they eat a moderate amount of chocolate a day – up to 100g, about the equivalent of two ordinary bars – tend to be less likely to suffer stroke or coronary heart disease than people who say they don't eat any at all.
But that doesn't mean the chocolate is doing them good.
There are other problems with the reporting. For instance, the newspapers said that eating chocolate is associated with a 25% drop in heart disease.
For some reason, it's always chocolate that gets in the news like this.
But this study really did contain good news.
The authors didn't claim that chocolate prevents heart disease, as we've seen. But they did say that "there does not appear to be evidence that chocolate should be avoided in terms of impact on cardiovascular risk". If you're worried about stroke, or worried about heart disease, you can probably still eat chocolate without it raising your chances of getting ill. That's good news for millions of people.