Clinical Blogs — cocoa
Cocoa – Good for Your Heart
Consume cocoa drink regularly can enhance your heart health. Two recent studies have shown that consuming cocoa flavanols helps to improve heart and blood vessel health. One German study involving 22 young men and 20 older healthy men drink either flavanol-containing drink or flavanol free drink twice daily for 2 weeks. Researchers observed that for the group consuming flavonoid containing drink has significant improvement in vasodilation. The older group also have a statistical reduction in blood pressure. Another study involving 100 healthy middle-aged men and women has also demonstrated the benefits of consuming cocoa flavanol-containing drink over the 4-week trial....
