Re: A Dark Chocolate A Day Keeps High Blood Pressure Away

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good suggestion, don't over due it. Moderation in everything....From: Joyce Hudson <bjoyful@...>Subject: [health] A Dark Chocolate A Day Keeps High Blood Pressure Away"Natural Health and Living" <health >Date: Monday, August 30, 2010, 8:26 AM

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A Dark Chocolate A Day Keeps High Blood Pressure Away

Attention, all you chocoholics out there. When Australian doctors prescribed a bar of dark chocolate daily to people with high blood pressure, a mutiny broke out. Half said eating that much candy was hard. One in five groused that chocolate just wasn't an acceptable hypertension treatment. Shocking, huh? Actually, we're with the rebellious Aussies, not their docs. You don't need a whole bar to get a healthy dose of chocolate power. Artery-friendly flavonoids in dark chocolate are so powerful that a daily piece the size of a Hershey's Kiss (about 30 calories, though make it dark chocolate) can lower your blood pressure. Even more impressive: Eating that much only once or twice a week cut heart failure risk by a third in a recent study. Besides, you'll wipe out chocolate's protective edge if you eat a bar every day because of the calories. Have a 3.5-ounce bar, and you're downing 440 calories and more fat than a Big Mac! So relish half an ounce or so a few days a week, if not more: A Kiss's worth of dark chocolate at night increases your odds of seeing the sun rise. Look for plain dark chocolate that's at least 70 percent cocoa. Avoid those with fillings like peanut butter, because they may also contain palm, coconut, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils. Shave dark chocolate over orange slices. Or melt it in the microwave and dip strawberries, popcorn or walnuts in it. Just don't wash it down with milk. Moo-juice blocks absorption of those flavonoids.

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Yup, he even says the size of a Hershey kiss, is all you need. :-) So glad, he said that.

[health] A Dark Chocolate A Day Keeps High Blood Pressure Away"Natural Health and Living" <health >Date: Monday, August 30, 2010, 8:26 AM

Here is your ArcaMax The You Docs Ezine

A Dark Chocolate A Day Keeps High Blood Pressure Away

Attention, all you chocoholics out there. When Australian doctors prescribed a bar of dark chocolate daily to people with high blood pressure, a mutiny broke out. Half said eating that much candy was hard. One in five groused that chocolate just wasn't an acceptable hypertension treatment. Shocking, huh? Actually, we're with the rebellious Aussies, not their docs. You don't need a whole bar to get a healthy dose of chocolate power. Artery-friendly flavonoids in dark chocolate are so powerful that a daily piece the size of a Hershey's Kiss (about 30 calories, though make it dark chocolate) can lower your blood pressure. Even more impressive: Eating that much only once or twice a week cut heart failure risk by a third in a recent study. Besides, you'll wipe out chocolate's protective edge if you eat a bar every day because of the calories. Have a 3.5-ounce bar, and you're downing 440 calories and more fat than a Big Mac! So relish half an ounce or so a few days a week, if not more: A Kiss's worth of dark chocolate at night increases your odds of seeing the sun rise. Look for plain dark chocolate that's at least 70 percent cocoa. Avoid those with fillings like peanut butter, because they may also contain palm, coconut, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils. Shave dark chocolate over orange slices. Or melt it in the microwave and dip strawberries, popcorn or walnuts in it. Just don't wash it down with milk. Moo-juice blocks absorption of those flavonoids.