Discussion
In this study, weight, waist circumference, total fat mass
and truncal fat mass of the participants improved after
following the intervention. The improvements were
observed in both groups, indicating that cocoa supplementation
did not have additional effect on those variables
and attributing the observed changes to the
hypocaloric diet followed by the volunteers. Our results
are in agreement with two previous studies and one
meta-analysis, in which no changes were observed in
body size and composition of overweight/obese subjects
after the cocoa supplementation [9,16,17]. Golomb et al.
observed a negative correlation between the frequency
of dark chocolate consumption and BMI [18].