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Tuesday, 30 March, 2010

Lowering heart attack and stroke the Mayan/Aztec way

On a recent visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico, was taken to a café that serves nothing but hot chocolate drinks. Most of them are derived from original recipes from South and Central America. The most popular beverage on the menu was the Mexican Full Spice Elixir. The only sweetener used is algave, and that extremely sparingly. Delicious and unusual.

The Kakawa Café may be onto something. Fully 39 % of the 20,000 participants in a just published German study who ate six grams (the equivalent of a single square from a chocolate bar) lowered their risk of heart attack and stroke. Researchers believe it's flavonols in chocolate widen blood vessels leading to a drop in blood pressure.

Though the study makes no dietary recommendations, a small square of dark chocolate makes a good replacement for snacks high in sugar, salt and fat, says Brian Buijsse, the lead author.

The enphasis is on the "small" size of the amount ingested. Eating large amounts of chocolate would result in weight gain that would be far worse than any benefits from the extra flavonols. A 100 grams of chocolate contains 500 calories.

The study was published today in the European Heart Journal


Posted by David Elkins and others at 9:48 AM

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