Health And Pleasure On Valentine’s Day
The Aztecs used chocolate as money. Today we use it to demonstrate romantic emotions, welcome or not, but another less uncertain benefit of chocolate has emerged in recent years: it’s good for us. A study published two years ago in BMC Medicine found that eating dark chocolate can significantly lower one’s blood pressure, but conveniently, only if the chocolate eater has blood pressure higher of 140 over 80.
More recently, high chocolate consumption was linked with a 37 percent reduction in cardiovascular disease risk, a 31 percent reduction in diabetes risk and a 29 percent reduction in stroke risk when compared to low chocolate consumption. ABC News reported that the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge and published in the British Medical Journal, reviewed data collected from more than 114,000 people. Dr. David Katz, director of medical studies in public health at Yale University, advises [...]
Original post by Art Jahnke
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