Monday, April 21, 2008

Chocolate Bar v Cholesterol...Fight!

Expect to see new "healthy" chocolate products...Chocolate bar shown to lower cholesterol. The study was funded by chocolate maker Mars Inc. but was double blind and published in the peer reviewed Journal of Nutrition.

“Eating two CocoaVia dark chocolate bars a day not only lowered cholesterol, it had the unexpected effect of also lowering systolic blood pressure,” said John Erdman, a U. of I. professor of food science and human nutrition.

Erdman attributes the drop in cholesterol numbers (total cholesterol by 2% and LDL or “bad” cholesterol by 5.3%) to the plant sterols that have been added to the bar and the drop in blood pressure to the flavanols found in dark chocolate."

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