Posted on 03/30/2010 1:49:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Eating as little as a quarter of an ounce of chocolate each day -- an amount equal to about one small Easter egg -- may lower your risk of experiencing a heart attack or stroke, a new study has found. For best results, the chocolate should be dark, experts say.
"Dark chocolate exhibits the greatest effects, milk chocolate fewer, and white chocolate no effects," says the lead author of the study, Brian Buijsse, a nutritional epidemiologist at the German Institute of Human Nutrition, in Nuthetal, Germany.
In the study, Buijsse and his colleagues followed nearly 20,000 people for an average of eight years. The researchers surveyed the study participants about their chocolate consumption (as well as the rest of their diet), and also tracked the heart attacks and strokes that occurred in the group.
Compared with people who rarely ate chocolate (about one bar per month), the people who ate the most chocolate (slightly more than one bar per week) had a 27 percent and 48 percent reduced risk of heart attack and stroke, respectively, the researchers found.
Health.com: How to make chocolate a healthy indulgence The heart benefits observed in the study may be due in part to lower blood pressure, the study notes. Previous studies have suggested that eating chocolate can lower blood pressure, and the researchers observed a similar -- though less pronounced -- association in this study.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Oh, YEAH!!
As well as:
*Strawberries have been associated with inhibiting the production of cholesterol in the liver.
*Strawberries have been known to help the body in getting rid of harmful toxins.
*The high antioxidant levels in strawberries can help the body neutralize the destructive effects of free radicals.
*The potassium in strawberries helps regulate the electrolytes in the body, in turn lowering the risk of stroke.
http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/benefits-of-strawberry-1515.html
Hey! We wuz right! Chocolate is good medicine!
Where’s Diana in Wisconsin? Isn’t she the one that has the tag line ‘Save the earth...it’s the only planet with chocolate?’ I don’t know how to ping, someone ping her!
Where’s Diana in Wisconsin? Isn’t she the one that has the tag line ‘Save the earth...it’s the only planet with chocolate?’ I don’t know how to ping, someone ping her!
Ping
Cool,
now I have a better excuse for my nightly square of 88%.
I ate chocolate chip ice cream almost every night, till the Dr. started to make noise about my cholesterol. Finally figured out I was just eating the ice cream for the chocolate.
Now I just eat the chocolate !!
Thank you! I’m munching on an 85% Lindt dark chocolate right now, recommended by someone else upthread. Pretty dang good, actually!
Thanks for the ping! I beat you to it, earlier in the thread. ;)
Mama, I’m adding you to the Freeper Chocoholic Ping List, if you don’t mind.
(Low volume Ping List. I ping about once a month when I’m having a ‘High Hormone Day’ and NEED chocolate lest I smack someone, LOL!)
LOL! Go ahead! You’re also on the gardening ping list, aren’t you? Don’t you run a business related to gardening? (Get all the names confused sometimes...but always loved your tag line!)
Yes. To all of the above. :)
Check out redhead’s pick.
That’s *hard core* stuff.
[I can only take the 60% Ghiardielli, myself]
Lindt 85% for energy and Lindt Intense Orange for near orgasmic pleasure.
You are entirely primal.
redhead: You have excellent taste
Omyx: You need to see this thread.
Chocolate! The Perfect Food! Chocolate will make you live a life of good heath. Chocolate heals the soul. Salamander believes that chocolate imparts immortality. I can find no fault with that logic.
Happy, happy, joy, joy! Happy, happy, joy!
“Salamander believes that chocolate imparts immortality.”*
*Disclaimer:
Salamander also isn’t exactly playing with a full deck.
[I’m just sayin’]....;]
It may keep the heart doctor away, but you may end up dying of diabetes?
That being said, dark chocolate is by far my favorite.
Chocolate covered parsley would be an even more marvelous food.
[until after I ate them and it was too late, I thought “chocolate covered ants” was just a cute joke candy name]
Omyx will be glad to verify that I'm "insane". lol
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