Re: Chocolates Reduce Blood Pressure


"Vanden" <vanbussche@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The findings, published in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine, are
based on data collected for more than a decade on Dutch men who were ages
65 and older in 1985. The long-running Zutphen Elderly Study has been used
by other researchers to look for risk factors for chronic disease.

This time, researchers examined the eating habits of 470 healthy men who
were not taking blood pressure medicine. The men who ate the most products
made from cocoa beans including cocoa drinks, chocolate bars and chocolate
pudding had lower blood pressure and a 50 percent lower risk of death.

The men ate the equivalent of about 10 grams of chocolate a day.

Cocoa beans contain flavanols, which are thought to increase nitric oxide
in the blood and improve the function of blood vessels.

"This is a very important article providing epidemiological support for
what many researchers have been observing in experimental models," said
Cesar Fraga of the University of California Davis, who does similar
research but was not involved in the new study.



I'll be glad to write dark chocolate prescriptions for y'all for a very
modest fee :-))


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