Tuesday, April 10, 2007

I Didn't Need a Study to Tell Me This

"When it comes to lowering blood pressure, a piece of dark chocolate beats green tea, hands down.

A survey released Monday is one of the first to be done on chocolate and shows that cocoa's polyphenols, or flavonoids, help lower high blood pressure, Dirk Taubert, senior lecturer in pharmacology and toxicology at the University Hospital of Cologne and lead author of the report, told HealthDay News."

entire story can be found at Fox News.com

1 comment:

Emily said...

Maybe that is why my blood pressure is so low (except I think I eat more milk chocolate than dark - oops!)