[B Knotts]

Germany: the land of chocolate.

[Rebelbase]

Why must everything have a racist overtone?

[joey'smom]

Hey, this could be Kobe's defense! He was just trying to lower his blood pressure!

[Onelifetogive]

A small study suggests that eating dark chocolate can lower your blood pressure.

This could explain the near-perfect vacuum in my blood vessels....

[RandyRep]

This is great! Finally, a research study that works for me.

The only problem is that a dark chocolate bar or a dark choc Dove bar (or similar) has a whole lot of calories too. I guess I have to make the sacrifice.

I know -- I'll eat my dark choc bar while walking an extra 5 miles. That ought to do it!

I love dark choc...

[najida]

Yes!
Red wine and chocolate...
No wonder my blood pressure is always low normal.

[Pyro7480]

Mmmm.. chocolate.. (in a Homer Simpson voice) ;-)

[blackdog]

There is no such thing as any chocolate other than dark chocolate. That other stuff is emulsifiers, lecithin, and don't even ask me to comment on "white chocolate".

My great grandfather owned Marquetand candies until around 1955 when he sold out to Russel Stover. Hand made from start to finish. My grandmother taught us how to make good chocolates at home too from her years of slave experience in working for her dad. Powdered cocoa, the kind produced from fermented beans processed in an alkaline method, cocoa butter, and super-fine sugar(not powdered sugar, but it looks almost the same). You add a few drops of water to thicken it and a little cocoa butter to thin it. You can see the VOC oils in the mix like an oil slick. That's the healthy stuff.

If you overshoot the temperature by as little as three degrees you will cook off all the fine flavor. It's kind of like hopping a fine beer. You will never see those aromatic oils in milk chocolate.

[SupplySider]

I read more about this study somewhere else, unfortunately I can't remember where. They were saying it must be dark, not milk chocolate, and only from certain kinds of cocoa beans. Belgian and German dark chocolates were almost all the right kind, Hershey's and most American brands were not.They also emphasized that you should cut the clories from somewhere else if you add chocolate.

I actually took this study to heart, and have been eating a little piece of imported dark chocolate every day. Most pleasant health thing I've tried.

[BlessedBeGod]

That's funny. The women in our family will only eat dark chocolate. We must know something that we didn't know we knew. ;-)

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Wasn't there a hilarious scene from a Woody Allen film where two scientists a century in the future were saying something like: "Back in the old days people used to think that hot fudge sundaes were bad for you. Little did they know then what we know now!"

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The short study would need to be confirmed in larger, longer-term ones before doctors could recommend treatment with chocolate, researchers say.

Purely in the interests of scientific research, I hereby volunteer for the larger, longer-term studies.

[Fester Chugabrew]

[RedWhiteBlue]

Well, then, a dark chocolate and red wine tasting must be the perfect gift of health! THIS is what I am buying hubby for his birthday. Dark chocolate is his favorite. I will also buy the appropriate wines (not from France) to go with the dark chocolates.

[bird4four4]

[Grammy]

This could explain my excellent blood pressure numbers (and my cheerful personality!)

Who cares what the question is. The answer is chocolate.

[Grampa Dave]

A chunk of wild salmon done on a grill covered with smashed blue berries in a Pinot Noir sauce, with Pinot Noir to enjoy followed with dark chocolate is now good for us. God is good!

[shiva]

Just saw something new at the store......DARK chocolate Hershey Kisses.

[McGavin999]

I LOVE dark chocolate, the darker the better. Never been much attracted to milk chocolate, but that bitter dark is great!