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<blockquote data-quote="runawaybunny" data-source="post: 83168"><p>Stand up and be proud fellow chocolate eaters, you were just doing instinctively doing what you knew was the right thing. </p><p></p><p>A Dark Chocolate a Day Keeps the Doctor Away</p><p>Daily Dark Chocolate Good for the Heart, Loaded With Flavonoids</p><p>By Daniel J. DeNoon </p><p>WebMD Medical News</p><p></p><p>Here's news that's hard not to like. Eating a small, 1.6-ounce bar of dark chocolate every day is good for you. Very good for you, find Mary Engler, PhD, RN, of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues.</p><p></p><p>Now here is a medical experiment you would love to volunteer for. Engler's team divided 21 healthy adults into two groups. One group got a Dove Dark Chocolate bar every day for two weeks. Like other dark chocolate bars with high-cocoa content, this one is loaded with something called epicatechin. Epicatechin is a particularly active member of a group of compounds called plant flavoniods. Flavoniods keep cholesterol from gathering in blood vessels, reduce the risk of blood clots, and slow down the immune responses that lead to clogged arteries.</p><p> </p><p>The second group that didn't get Dove bars wasn't totally left out. They, too, got dark chocolate bars. But their treats had the flavoniods taken out.</p><p></p><p>All subjects underwent high-tech evaluation of how well the blood vessels dilate and relax -- an indictor of healthy blood vessel function. Blood vessel stiffness indicates diseased vessels and possible atherosclerosis. Those who got the full-flavonoid chocolate did significantly better. Why? Blood tests showed that high levels of epicatechin were coursing through their arteries.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20040601/dark-chocolate-day-keeps-doctor-away" target="_blank">http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20040601/dark-chocolate-day-keeps-doctor-away</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="runawaybunny, post: 83168"] Stand up and be proud fellow chocolate eaters, you were just doing instinctively doing what you knew was the right thing. A Dark Chocolate a Day Keeps the Doctor Away Daily Dark Chocolate Good for the Heart, Loaded With Flavonoids By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Medical News Here's news that's hard not to like. Eating a small, 1.6-ounce bar of dark chocolate every day is good for you. Very good for you, find Mary Engler, PhD, RN, of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues. Now here is a medical experiment you would love to volunteer for. Engler's team divided 21 healthy adults into two groups. One group got a Dove Dark Chocolate bar every day for two weeks. Like other dark chocolate bars with high-cocoa content, this one is loaded with something called epicatechin. Epicatechin is a particularly active member of a group of compounds called plant flavoniods. Flavoniods keep cholesterol from gathering in blood vessels, reduce the risk of blood clots, and slow down the immune responses that lead to clogged arteries. The second group that didn't get Dove bars wasn't totally left out. They, too, got dark chocolate bars. But their treats had the flavoniods taken out. All subjects underwent high-tech evaluation of how well the blood vessels dilate and relax -- an indictor of healthy blood vessel function. Blood vessel stiffness indicates diseased vessels and possible atherosclerosis. Those who got the full-flavonoid chocolate did significantly better. Why? Blood tests showed that high levels of epicatechin were coursing through their arteries. [url="http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20040601/dark-chocolate-day-keeps-doctor-away"]http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20040601/dark-chocolate-day-keeps-doctor-away[/url] [/QUOTE]
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