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Because I love Chocolate sooo much

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Dark Chocolate is Good for Your Heart

Just in case you need an excuse to eat chocolate, new research shows that the flavonoids present in dark chocolate may help reduce heart disease. Scottish scientists measured platelet function in volunteers who ate 100 grams of either white chocolate, milk chocolate or dark chocolate. (The clumping of platelets can contribute to the narrowing of arteries.) White chocolate had no effect on platelets, milk chocolate had a mild effect, but dark chocolate reduced one type of platelet clumping by 92 percent. Dark chocolate contains 70 percent cocoa, compared to 25 percent in milk chocolate and 0% in white chocolate.

In another study done at the University of California in San Francisco and published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, researchers had volunteers eat 46 grams of high-flavonoid dark chocolate or low-flavonoid dark chocolate for two weeks. In those who ate the high-flavonoid chocolate, the arteries were better able to dilate, which would help increase blood flow.
If you’re going to indulge your chocolate cravings to improve your heart health, be sure to eat dark chocolate, avoid chocolate that contains hydrogenated oils and be moderate! Too much sugar will outweigh any benefits you might get from the flavonoids.

And by the way, freshly ground and brewed coffee, and red wine are also rich in flavonoids.

Kennedy G, Innes AJ et al, “Dark chocolate inhibits platelet aggregation in healthy volunteers.” Program and abstracts of the XIX Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis; Birmingham, UK, July 12-18, 2003.

Engler MB, Engler MM, “Flavonoid-rich dark chocolate improves endothelial function and increases plasma epicatechin concentrations in healthy adults,” J Am Coll Nutr. 2004 Jun;23(3):197-204.

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