How many know where chocolate originated? And they certainly don’t know that it was actually tart, not sweet, before Europeans got hold of it.
So is chocolate good for your health? In a word: no.
And, way down th page after graphs and stuff, comes this:
Bigger, better studies may find that cocoa is in fact a health elixir, so we should keep doing them. “It’s important to understand whether something as simple and low-risk as increasing a nutrient in the diet could also have health benefits,” said JoAnn Manson, a Harvard nutrition researcher. “[Cocoa] has looked promising in small-scale randomized controlled trials and in observational studies, so it’s worth moving now to more conclusive and large-scale randomized controlled trials.”
Read all about it @ Dark chocolate is now a health food. Here’s how that happened. - Vox - Pocket