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Dark chocolate daily can help to take a normal blood pressure as much as the drugs used to control blood pressure in a study analyzing the research on the subject. This study also shows that tea, black or green, does not bring benefit to control blood pressure.

Dark Chocolate

Dirk Taubert and colleagues at the University of Cologne analyzed 10 studies published between 1996 and 2006 on the hypotensive properties of these two foods rich in flavonoids, an antioxidant substance.

Daily consumption of chocolate, the authors argue, would reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by 10% to 20% (by pathology). Within 5 research reviewed that focused on the chocolate, the participants had used it for two weeks on average. It was dark chocolate with a high concentration of flavonoids. Trade chocolates, including milk chocolate, contains many rare.

They analyzed four studies of black tea. No benefit compared to the blood pressure was observed even with consumption as high as 4 to 6 cups per day for 4 weeks. A study focused on green tea, at a rate of one cup per day. No benefit was also observed.

We know that cocoa and tea contain significant amounts of polyphenols such as flavonoids which are antioxidants known to prevent cardiovascular disease.

This study leads to the conclusion that the reduction in blood pressure brought by the cocoa must be due to a particular type of polyphenols, which are procyanides also present in wine but not in tea.

According to Dirk Taubert, a reasonable consumption of chocolate could be recommended to combat the problems of hypertension as well as consumption of fruits and vegetables, provided to choose dark chocolate, avoid chocolate containing large amounts of sugar , fat and calories.

Onions are a rich source of oligosaccharides, which can stimulate the growth of healthy bifid bacteria and suppress the growth of potentially harmful bacteria in the colon, which translates into protection preventing tumor development in the area.

Onions contain a number of sulfides similar to those found in garlic, both of which belong to the family of the lilies, compounds that can reduce blood lipids and blood pressure.

In India, according to statistics, those communities who did not eat onion or garlic, and cholesterol were significantly higher triglycerides and altered blood clotting times in relation to the communities that ate liberal amounts of garlic and onion. Read the rest of this entry »