HAVE A PIECE OF BLACK CHOCOLATE REDUCES BLOOD PRESSURE
COLOGNE (dpa). Even a piece of cocoa-rich dark chocolate a day reduces data to a Cologne study on blood pressure. The effect would not have been particularly strong, but at least no weight gain occurred, the pharmacologist Dr. Dirk Taubert of the University Hospital of Cologne (JAMA 298, 2007, 49).
In the study, 44 participants ate with slightly elevated blood pressure (147/87 mmHg) for 18 weeks on average 6.3 grams per day either dark or white chocolate. With dark chocolate, the systolic pressure fell on average by 2.9 mmHg, diastolic by 1.9 mm Hg with white chocolate did not change blood pressure. Researchers suspect that work in the cocoa polyphenols contained antihypertensive.
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