Nutrition during palliative care focuses on both preventing malnutrition, but also on providing emotion and psychological comfort through eating foods associated with pleasure. Chocolate has been associated with pleasure for some individuals, leading Vettori and colleagues (2022) to assess the effects of chocolate consumption on the nutritional status of older cancer patients in palliative care. The study found that the consumption of chocolate with 55% cocoa may have positive health benefits for this population. Read more…
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