Chocolate ‘lowers cholesterol’
May 13, 2008
NEW YORK: Chocolate is the most extensively craved food in the world. But who says that it’s calorific? A new study has exposed that it lowers cholesterol level. Researchers in the United States of America have found that eating 2 chocolate bars daily not only cuts down cholesterol levels but also controls hypertension, the Journal of Nutrition reported in its newest edition.
“Eating two dark chocolate bars a day not only lowers cholesterol, it has the unforeseen effect of lowering systolic blood pressure,” according to lead researcher Prof John Erdman of the University of Illinois.
For the study, they recruited forty-nine people with slightly eminent cholesterol and normal blood pressure. Consequently, the participants were divided into 2 matched groups who were given CocoaVia two types of chocolate bars — one with plant sterols and one without.
The participants ate one CocoaVia formulation twice daily for four weeks, and then switched to the other bar for an additional four weeks. Cholesterol levels, blood pressure, body weight, and other cardiovascular measures were tracked all through the eight-week study.
“We saw a marked differential effect on blood cholesterol, with the sterol-containing products doing better than those without sterols,” co-researcher Ellen Evans was quoted by the journal as saying.
The researchers attributed the drop in cholesterol levels to the plant sterols that are added to chocolate bars and the drop in hypertension due to the substantial presence of flavanols.
PTI
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