Chocolate can do good things for your heart, skin and brain.Scientists at the Harvard University School of Public Health recently examined 136 studies on coco -- the foundation for chocolate -- and found it does seem to boost heart health, according to an article in the European journal Nutrition and Metabolism.
Studies have shown heart benefits from increased blood flow, less platelet stickiness and clotting, and improved bad cholesterol. These benefits are the result of cocoa's antioxidant chemicals known as flavonoids, which seem to prevent both cell damage and inflammation.
If your blood pressure is high, chocolate may help. It was recently found that hypertensive people who ate 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate per day for two weeks saw their blood pressure drop significantly, according to an article in the journal Hypertension. Their bad cholesterol dropped, too.
It sounds almost too good to be true, but preliminary research at West Virginia's Wheeling Jesuit University suggests chocolate may boost your memory, attention span, reaction time, and problem-solving skills by increasing blood flow to the brain. Chocolate companies found comparable gains in similar research on healthy young women and on elderly people.
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Interesting. But did you know that the average chocolate bar has approximately 18 spider legs in it?
And a certain percentage of rat poop is allowed during processing too. True fact. It's in peanut butter too. Rats like peanuts and live in the storage bins in sheer ecstasy. In chocolate there could also be some fingers, toes, arms, legs or teeth due to the Colombian cocoa trade casualties.
Now what we need to develop is a chocolate bar made of olive oil and we’d be damn near set.
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