The dark truth of healthful chocolate

November 14, 2008 By Drs. Kay Judge and Maxine Barish-Wreden

While research has shown that dark chocolate can help to lower blood pressure, those studies required eating a large amount of chocolate to achieve the benefits.

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bmcghie - Nov 15, 2008
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Oh wow! Science comes to the rescue of common sense again! Thank goodness, I thought I'd have to rely on what my mother told me for a minute there! Thanks for the second opinion, it's great to know she wasn't mistaken about that exercise stuff!

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Seriously, how on earth do they get funding for this stuff? Not the germans and the chocolate, the two idiot doctors at the bottom...
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