The latest issue of Food & Function is now available online.
The front cover of this month’s issue highlights work by Suzana Almoosawi and colleagues collaborating from several UK institutions, who compared the effect of polyphenol-rich dark chocolate on biomarkers of glucose metabolism, blood pressure and lipid profile on two groups of women – women with a BMI less than or equal to 25 Kg m−2and women with a BMI greater than 25. The results of the study demonstrated that comsuming polyphenol-rich dark chocolate had beneficial health effects for a for women with a BMI greater than 25, but that consumption of polyphenol-deficient chocolate had adverse effects.
This story featured in Chemistry World in July – read the story here.
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Differential effect of polyphenol-rich dark chocolate on biomarkers of glucose metabolism and cardiovascular risk factors in healthy, overweight and obese subjects: a randomized clinical trial, S. Almoosawi, C. Tsang, L. M. Ostertag, L. Fyfe and E. A. S. Al-Dujaili, Food Funct., 2012, 3, 1035-1043
