According to Prevention magazine (Oct. '11), one of my favorite foods is good for lowering blood pressure. Since that is a concern of mine, I was especially delighted with this news! Are you ready for this? Drumroll please...Dark chocolate (flavanols) make blood vessels more elastic thus lowering blood pressure. Yeah! I love chocolate! The bad news? Okay, here it is....You can eat 1/2 ounce of at least 70% cocoa daily. This leaves out milk chocolate, sugar-laden candy bars, etc. But isn't it nice to know we can have a bit of chocolate daily and improve our blood pressure?
1 square is usually 1 ounce
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