Chocolate ‘may help fight cancer and heart disease’

COMPOUNDS found in cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, may help prevent cancer and heart disease, research suggested yesterday.

Professor Norman Hollenberg, from Harvard Medical School in the United States, found that foods rich in the compound flavonol, such as specific cocoas, could play a significant role in preventing these two major killer diseases.

The researcher has been working with two populations of Kuna Indians in Panama for more than 10 years.