Chocolate Better Than Wine!

Okay, it's a bit of a stretch, but new research has shown that consuming DARK chocolate contains the same if not more of the compounds found in red wine -polyphenols-which can lower your blood pressure. Hmmm...those little Dove dark chocolate pieces are so good, especially when they get warmed up a bit in this weather. Granted, chocolate won't give you a buzz like wine, but when you include dark chocolate and potassium rich foods in your diet, such as fruit or chilis, you can drop several notches in your BP. I did my own experiment and found my BP and pulse dropped almost 7 points systolic after eating a Dove bar. The study was published in JAMA (Chocolate and Blood Pressure in Elderly Individuals With Isolated Systolic Hypertension
Dirk Taubert; Reinhard Berkels; Renate Roesen; Wolfgang Klaus JAMA. 2003;290:1029-1030.)
Categories: chocolate, wine, sex, hormones, blood, pressure, fruit, chilis, potassium