The obvious question is: How does the chocolate know if your blood pressure is too high? That's Geezer's response to a report in BMC Medicine claiming that eating dark chocolate can significantly lower one's blood pressure, but only if the chocolate eater has blood pressure higher of 140 over 80, which is generally considered the northern border of healthy. Researchers at the University of Adelaide conducted a meta study of 15 former research projects that attempted to find a link between blood pressure and flavanols, the compounds in chocolate that encourage dilation of blood
vessels. The Australian scientists concluded that dark chocolate was most effective in lowering blood pressure, and that, curiously, it had little influence on blood pressure that was in the normal healthy range.
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Maybe the blood pressure effect is not so mysterious. Like dissolving salt in water, only so much can be dissolved at a certain temperature and pressure, and then the solution become saturated. Only so much flavanols (are those different from flavanoids?) are needed, and after that, they are discarded. Just an untested hypothesis.
What a total bunch of crap. Why can’t they research more into things that actually work in a lifestyle approach, such as yoga (via parasymathetic response) cardiovascular (aerobic) activity (decreased total peripheral resistance). I hate idiots!