Chocolate always arouses passions : we already know that drinking dark chocolate helps our body to relax, that it increases our ability to do physical exercise, therefore, it is good for sports, that it increases the sexual desire of women, and has also been associated with a lower risk of heart problems, probably due to its high content of polyphenols (antioxidant substances that are also present in other foods such as olive oil); so in this case, this statement is on the right track.
Now it is not only good to take it to reduce the risk of problems related to the heart, but it is also good for our vascular health in general. Sound too good to be true? Well in this case it is. Recent research published in The FASEB Journal (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) suggests that consuming dark chocolate helps restore the flexibility of the arteries while preventing white blood cells from adhering to the walls of the arteries. blood vessels Both circumstances are decisive in atherosclerosis (the most common form of arteriosclerosis).
To reach this conclusion, the team of researchers led by Dr. Diederik Esser from the University of Wageningen (The Netherlands) analyzed 44 overweight middle-aged men during two periods spaced four weeks apart; in both periods the subjects consumed 70 grams of dark chocolate each day. Both before and after the study periods, the researchers carried out a wide variety of analyzes, important indicators of vascular health. The conclusion was the restoration of the flexibility of the arteries and the reduction of the adherence of the white blood cells to the wall of the blood vessels.
This discovery will undoubtedly help us to drink dark chocolate without feeling guilty, knowing that more and more positive reasons are known to take it, with moderation, yes.
