Sweet news: A once a week chocolate fix can be good for your heart
A new study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology this week supports the argument that chocolate can be good for your heart.
“Our study suggests that chocolate helps keep the heart’s blood vessels healthy,” explained study author Dr. Chayakrit Krittanawong of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a statement. “Chocolate contains heart healthy nutrients such as flavonoids, methylxanthines, polyphenols and stearic acid which may reduce inflammation and increase good cholesterol .”
That’s good news for the many people who’ve been turning to sweet, sweet chocolate during the coronavirus outbreak. In fact, Americans spent $3.7 billion on chocolate in the 17-week period that ended June 27, which is up 6.3% from the same window last year, Nielsen reported. And while dark chocolate sales were up 13.6%, milk chocolate has proven to be the sweet most people are sinking their teeth into during the pandemic, with Americans dropping $2.9 billion on it.
As noted above, chocolate has been shown to lower blood pressure. Subjects with high blood pressure who ate dark chocolate or other flavanol-rich cocoa for two weeks in a 2010 study lowered their blood pressure more than the subjects who were taking a placebo.
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