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Dark Chocolate Can Lower
Your
Blood Pressure
It has to be Dark
Chocolate
& Unfortunately,
you only need a very small amount
Cutting
edge research into Chocolate now indicates that a square (only a square) of
dark chocolate a day can lower blood pressure without piling on weight.
A team of
German scientists conclude that a little dark chocolate (very little) could
offer an alternative short cut for people with slightly high blood pressure to
bring it down a bit. This would be an escape from the traditional low fat diet
which is a byword for boredom.
Previous
research has indicated that consumption of high amounts of cocoa-containing
foods can lower blood pressure, believed to be due to the action of the cocoa polyphenols, a group of chemical substances in plants that
include heart beneficial kinds, called flavanols. So why the small amount of chocolate?
The obvious
concern is that the benefits of a reduction in blood pressure contributed by
the flavanols could be offset by the high sugar, fat
and calories of chocolate. Sorry, there’s no free lunch.
To
investigate, Dr Dirk Taubert of University Hospital
of Cologne, Germany, and colleagues conducted a trial on 44 adults with
borderline high blood pressure, giving them either 6.3 g (30 calories) per day
of dark chocolate containing 30 milligrams of polyphenols,
or matching polyphenol-free white chocolate. This
worked out as one little square of a 100-gram bar containing 16 squares.
It has to be Dark Chocolate
The
researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that dark
chocolate intake reduced average blood pressure without changes in body weight,
blood plasma levels of fats or sugars. Hypertension prevalence declined from 86
percent to 68 percent. Blood pressure was unchanged in the white chocolate
group.
Overall, they
cut blood pressure by up to two millimetres of
mercury with a square of chocolate each day. "Although the magnitude of
the blood pressure reduction was small, the effects are clinically
noteworthy," the team concluded.
Over a
population, it has been estimated that a three millimetre
mercury reduction in systolic blood pressure (the top one) would reduce the
relative risk of stroke mortality by 8 percent, of coronary artery disease
mortality by five percent, and of all-cause mortality by four percent.
The
researchers point out (strenuously) that they were not sponsored by a Chocolate
manufacturer.
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