Dark chocolate may also lower blood pressu

The darker the chocolate, the lower the blood pressure
CBC News, 26 Aug 2003
<http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/26/Consumers/chocolate_030826>

Dark chocolate may aid blood pressure, study says
By Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press, 8/27/2003
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/08/27/dark_chocolate_may_aid_blood_pressure_study_says/>

Dark Chocolate Is Healthy Chocolate
Dark Chocolate Has Health Benefits Not Seen in Other Varieties
Aug. 27, 2003
<http://my.webmd.com/content/article/73/81921.htm>

Eating chocolate 'helps cut high blood pressure'
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Telegraph, 16/02/2002
<http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/16/wchoc16.xml>


References:

Chocolate and Blood Pressure in Elderly Individuals With Isolated Systolic
Hypertension
Dirk Taubert; Reinhard Berkels; Renate Roesen; Wolfgang Klaus
JAMA. 2003;290:1029-1030.
<http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/290/8/1029>

Fisher ND, Hughes M, Gerhard-Herman M, Hollenberg NK.
Flavanol-rich cocoa induces nitric-oxide-dependent vasodilation in healthy
humans.
J Hypertens. 2003 Dec;21(12):2281-6.
PMID: 14654748 [PubMed - in process]
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Matti Narkia