Dark chocolate good for high blood pressure
Filed in archive Healthy Eating by Linda Hernestal da Silva on July 8, 2007

Chocolate is said to be bad for your skin and because of it´s amount of calories.
Obviously that depends on how much you eat.
If you suffer from high blood pressure a piece of chocolate might not be so bad after all.
If you have a small piece of dark chocolate you might lover your possibilities of hypertension. If you eat too much you will gain weight and then it won´t do any good at all.
A recent study from Germany where the participants ate chocolate for a few months shows that dark chocolate has this effect. White chocolate
doesn´t. That is because the dark chocolate contains a substance called flavonols which you can not find in white chocolate. So if you want to treat yourself to a piece of chocolate each day that is fine, just make sure you buy dark chocolate and eat a tiny piece every day.
Of course you should take this advice with a pinch of salt as it´s still not proven to be a fully reliable way to reduce high blood pressure. But if you make sure you exercise as well, a 20 minutes walk for a piece of chocolate or so, then it´s shouldn´t be so bad.
Now where did I put that chocolate...?
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