Hatrack River Forum: Chocolate: It's good for the heart

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Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040605/food.asp

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Chocolate and coffee seem to go together perfectly. Think of a double-shot mocha at the corner coffee shop. Yet, the two ingredients appear to have opposite effects on a person's arteries, according to two new studies. Chocolate is good for them, whereas coffee—or at least its caffeine—does damage.

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The pulse readings indicated that people's arteries were definitely less stiff after they ate the chocolate, Vlachopoulos says. The comparison for artery dilation also favored chocolate: Volunteers' forearm arteries were 20 percent more dilated on days of eating chocolate versus no-chocolate days.

Ha! My parents were wrong! Eating chocolate is healthy [Big Grin]

::runs off to eat chocolate::

Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :

Well, obviously you can't eat excessive amounts of chocolate. Plus they say that the darker the chocolate the better.

*also runs off to eat chocolate*

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

Why does it always have to be about color

Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :

*drinks lots of coffee*
I don't eat chocolate very often.
[Dont Know]

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

Yay! Chocolate! Now if only chocolate didn't make you fat....

Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

better fattish than fartish, bev, dear.

i can't say i've ever considered chocolate unhealthy, allergic reactions aside.

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

porce: [ROFL]

I dunno, I think I would put up with untamed flatulance for awhile if I could drop 30 pounds right now. MPH might beg to differ. Fortunately for all of you, the internet is not currently capable of conveying smells.

Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :

Runs to eat some dark chocolate....talks self into green tea instead of more coffee.....

Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :

*bought a huge bar of Hershey's Special Dark last night*

*LOVES dark chocolate, as long as he has something to wash it down with*

Posted by cochick (Member # 6167) on :

chocolate is good for everything - ummmm dark chocolate - yummy

Posted by Polio (Member # 6479) on :

I hate coffee and chocolate. Oh well. We're all going to die anyway...

Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :

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i can't say i've ever considered chocolate unhealthy

Could you be my mommy?