Healthbolt » Chocolate for Health http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt Health News and Commentary - Weird Health News and Information Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:02:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Make Me Happy, Sweet Chocolate, and Lower My Blood Pressure. http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/make-me-happy-sweet-chocolate-and-lower-my-blood-pressure/ http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/make-me-happy-sweet-chocolate-and-lower-my-blood-pressure/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:00:57 +0000 Liberty Kontranowski http://www.healthbolt.net/2008/07/21/make-me-happy-sweet-chocolate-and-lower-my-blood-pressure/ Post from: Healthbolt

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Is there just anything better than reading about the health benefits of steak, beer or chocolate? Methinks not.

So here’s another gem for you: German researchers say that eating a square of dark chocolate every day can reduce your systolic blood pressure (the top number) by 3 points and your diastolic pressure by 2! And you don’t have to worry about breaking the diet bank, either. Each square only totals about 30 calories (calories full of bliss, I might add.)

The trick? Natural compounds found in dark chocolate raise your levels of nitric oxide, a known blood-vessel relaxer.

So…more chocolate in your life = better health? Man, what great news for a Monday, eh?

Bon apetit!

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