Love-Chocolate

A recent study which just appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association about chocolate lowering blood pressure. By a series of tests they proved that eating some dark chocolate can lower a persons blood pressure without having a diet change. German researchers divided 44 adults in half. They gave one half dark chocolate and one half white chocolate. The ones who had dark chocolate received a difference of 20 points. The people who had white chocolate did not get any. 

There is an ingredient in chocolate that works as a vasodilator, helping the blood vessels relax and become more flexible, and thus reducing the pressure inside. And surprisingly a little chocolate in this case goes a long way.

So take your chocolate to heart!

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