How sweet it is! Chocolate improves blood flow
Want one more reason to relax your health-conscious attitude towards chocolate with the approach of the holidays? Japanese researchers say they’ve found dark chocolate improves the body’s blood flow in healthy adults.
However, the researchers, who reported their findings at the American Heart Association’s recent annual meeting, said they found no such benefit when they tested white chocolate.
“Flavonoid-rich dark chocolate intake had acute effects in improving coronary function in healthy adults, as compared to non-flavonoid white chocolate, independent of changes in oxidative stress parameters, blood pressure and lipid profile,” said the researchers from Japan’s Chiba University.
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