Dark chocolate keeps the Doctor away!

I love chocolates! Who doesn't? If anyone who says he/she doesn't.....then either he/she is crazy or simply does not have good taste....according to me!

The white chocolates (chocolates are brown & not white!) or the milk chocolates, I never did like. For me, the darker the better and with full of nuts.....hazelnuts or almonds I love! Now, why am I thinking of chocolates? Reason being, I just read an article in the "Times of India".

Dark chocolate keeps blood-pressure at bay!
27 Apr 2008, 0926 hrs IST, Julie Steenhuysen

Chicago: According to German researchers - a nibble of dark chocolate a day helped lower blood pressure without packing on the pounds.

Prior studies have shown that foods rich in cocoa, like dark chocolate, offer heart benefits, but researchers are worried the added sugar, fat and calories would cancel out any good the chocolate might do. Now it seems just a 30-calorie (0.126 kilojoule) bite of dark chocolate, equivalent to 6.8 grams or a quarter ounce, can lower blood pressure without weight gain or other side effects. "Regular intake of small amounts of dark chocolate can help to lower blood pressure," said Dr Dirk Taubert of University Hospital of Cologne, Germany, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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I have been trying to cut my indulgence as I am waging a war against the fat that has crept up on me so silently that before I realized.....it's all settled in those unwanted areas and I am now having a hard time getting rid of it!

Reading this article, I am feeling less guilty of my indulgence! So, lets all eat Dark Chocolates and keep the blood-pressure in check!