Dark chocolate — not milk chocolate — lowers high blood pressure, say Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Cologne, Germany. Their report appears in the Aug. 27 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
However, that doesn’t mean you can go on a dark chocolate binge. Eating more dark chocolate can help lower blood pressure — if you’ve reached a certain age and have mild high blood pressure, say the researchers. But you have to balance the extra calories by eating less of other things.
A University of Utah study found that their patients, who were basically healthy, experienced a marked decrease in both the systolic and diastolic blood pressure within 2 weeks of consuming the Xocai unprocessed chocolate. With more and more studies being made on the effects of dark chocolate it’s no wonder Xocai has become such a popular product and business opportunity. Why else would the New York Times have spotlighted Xocai and called it the ‘Amway’ of the chocolate industry?
