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OT- Chocolate good for your heart!
I found this article in an email I get called Physicians Watch which gives abstracts of current medical journal articles.
Moderate Chocolate Consumption Linked to Lower Risk for Heart Failure in Women
Moderate chocolate consumption might lower a woman's risk for heart failure (HF), according to a study in Circulation: Heart Failure.
More than 30,000 middle-aged and older Swedish women without histories of diabetes, HF, or myocardial infarction completed food-frequency questionnaires and then were followed for roughly 9 years. During that time, 1.3% were hospitalized for, or died from, HF.
Compared with women who didn't eat chocolate, those who consumed one to three servings a month had about a 25% reduction in HF risk, while those who consumed one to two servings a week had a 30% risk reduction. Higher intake did not appear to have a protective effect.
The authors point out that chocolate is a good source of flavonoids, which might improve cardiovascular risk factors. They note, however, that chocolate consumed in the U.S. likely contains less cocoa (known to be cardioprotective) than that consumed by women in this study.
Circulation: Heart Failure article (Free PDF)
Physician's First Watch coverage of 2007 study showing dark chocolate can lower blood pressure (Free)
Just some validation about all the chocolate that gets eaten around here for "medicinal" reasons.Solid proof that we are doing the right thing. :-)
Ren
Moderate Chocolate Consumption Linked to Lower Risk for Heart Failure in Women
Moderate chocolate consumption might lower a woman's risk for heart failure (HF), according to a study in Circulation: Heart Failure.
More than 30,000 middle-aged and older Swedish women without histories of diabetes, HF, or myocardial infarction completed food-frequency questionnaires and then were followed for roughly 9 years. During that time, 1.3% were hospitalized for, or died from, HF.
Compared with women who didn't eat chocolate, those who consumed one to three servings a month had about a 25% reduction in HF risk, while those who consumed one to two servings a week had a 30% risk reduction. Higher intake did not appear to have a protective effect.
The authors point out that chocolate is a good source of flavonoids, which might improve cardiovascular risk factors. They note, however, that chocolate consumed in the U.S. likely contains less cocoa (known to be cardioprotective) than that consumed by women in this study.
Circulation: Heart Failure article (Free PDF)
Physician's First Watch coverage of 2007 study showing dark chocolate can lower blood pressure (Free)
Just some validation about all the chocolate that gets eaten around here for "medicinal" reasons.Solid proof that we are doing the right thing. :-)
Ren
Diet, schmiet! dark chocolate with at least 70% cocoa has a low glycemic index, and therefore won't make a big difference.
I look at "diet" as just food for life. What's included in what I eat. If I keep to veg, fruit, nuts, meat/fish, and CHOCOLATE, I do fine. It's when I indescriminately eat white sugary/floury stuff that things go off balance.
I look at "diet" as just food for life. What's included in what I eat. If I keep to veg, fruit, nuts, meat/fish, and CHOCOLATE, I do fine. It's when I indescriminately eat white sugary/floury stuff that things go off balance.
I'm sorry Jess!! I hope you aren't doing a diet that is too terribly restritive, I usually have a backlash after I do that!!
Quix, it really sounds good what you had last night.
have found it very helpful to drink lots of diet coke while consuming mounds of milk chocolate! That way it keeps my veins open while keeping me awake to eat even more. Plus, we aren't taking in the sugar you know.
Tonight, I will have double fudge ice cream directly over the warmed chocolate chip brownie, then some hut fudge and a little reddi-whip on the top. That way I get plenty of dairy products too.
Red
Quix, it really sounds good what you had last night.
have found it very helpful to drink lots of diet coke while consuming mounds of milk chocolate! That way it keeps my veins open while keeping me awake to eat even more. Plus, we aren't taking in the sugar you know.
Tonight, I will have double fudge ice cream directly over the warmed chocolate chip brownie, then some hut fudge and a little reddi-whip on the top. That way I get plenty of dairy products too.
Red
Not nice Red & Quix!! I'm on a stupid diet. Stupid, worthless, flinging-flanging-bleeping diet. I'll have to pretend that my sugar-free chocolate pudding cup is ice cream, and a black bean brownie is cake.
~Jess
p.s. the back bean brownies aren't bad...not exactly like full-sugar yummy gooey brownies, but not like diet health-food either.
~Jess
p.s. the back bean brownies aren't bad...not exactly like full-sugar yummy gooey brownies, but not like diet health-food either.
I have survived the agony of the broken leg and the forced inactivity with mountains of block milk chocolate. the cocoa content is only about 35%, compared with good dark chocolate which varies from 60% to over 80%. As I said in my last journal entry, I realize that I just need to consume three times as much and if anyone tries to give me some BS about the sugar cancelling out the protective effect I will cover my ears and yell, "La La La La La."
Chocolate is deeply rooted in my quality of life. Too much, tho and it triggers migraines, so I have to soften the assault on my cerebral vessels with the kinder milk chocolate.
Tonight it was Chocolate chip mint ice cream with hot fudge, plenty of hot fudge.
Tomorrow solid Swiss Milk Chocolate.
Life can be sooo good.
Quix
Chocolate is deeply rooted in my quality of life. Too much, tho and it triggers migraines, so I have to soften the assault on my cerebral vessels with the kinder milk chocolate.
Tonight it was Chocolate chip mint ice cream with hot fudge, plenty of hot fudge.
Tomorrow solid Swiss Milk Chocolate.
Life can be sooo good.
Quix
I just finished a piece of 'death by chocolate cake' with a scoop of chocolate ice cream.
I can tell you that chocolate is definately good for you as I felt good while swirling the chocolate in my mouth while taking in the essence of the next bite.
I picked up double chocolate chip brownies at the bakery today. They will help me with pain tomorrow.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......good..........................
Red
I can tell you that chocolate is definately good for you as I felt good while swirling the chocolate in my mouth while taking in the essence of the next bite.
I picked up double chocolate chip brownies at the bakery today. They will help me with pain tomorrow.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......good..........................
Red
So is it also good for MEN? I sure hope so as I'm a confirmed chocoholic also. :)
Dennis
Dennis
Oh, sweet, literally. I am thrilled about this as I sit here eating my 3rd mini square Catebury chocolates DH brought back from England. Yum yum and good for our heart too.
It's dark chocolate that they mean, right? Stupid dark chocolate, stealing the nutrients from my beloved milk chocolate. :-P
~Jess
~Jess
If the chocolate in the US contains less cocoa than that consumed in the study doesn't that mean that we need to eat more to get the beneficial effect? Yeah, I wish.
I think that is why I usually hear that dark chocolate is healthier - it has more cocoa and less sugar. Good for me that I love it!
Mary
I think that is why I usually hear that dark chocolate is healthier - it has more cocoa and less sugar. Good for me that I love it!
Mary
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