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Assistant Health Editor
Assistant Health Editor
Ava Durgin is the Assistant Health Editor at mindbodygreen. She is a recent graduate from Duke University where she received a B.A. in Global Health and Psychology. In her previous work, Ava served as the Patient Education Lead for Duke Hospital affiliated programs, focusing on combating food insecurity and childhood obesity.
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January 02, 2026
If “eat more vegetables” were the metric, I’d be doing pretty good. But… if “eat chocolate regularly” were the real measure of consistency, I’d be excelling.
So yes, I was more than a little interested when new research took a closer look at what’s actually inside cocoa.
