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Why do gout sufferers need to know about chocolate?
Because my news page just told me that chocolate can lower blood pressure, and for nearly half of all gout patients that is good news.

I told you about high blood pressure (hypertension) and gout sufferers in my second newsletter ^(*). I am one of the 49% of gout sufferers who also have high blood pressure.

Journal of the American Medical Association has recently reported about research into Effects of Low Habitual Cocoa Intake on Blood Pressure. They found that eating 6.3g of dark chocolate for 18 weeks:
reduced average blood pressure
did not increase body weight, fatty acids or glucose.
reduced the number of participants with hypertension from 86 to 68 in every hundred

Blood pressure of participants who ate white chocolate did not change.

The authors conclude that:

small amounts of polyphenol-rich dark chocolate as part of a usual diet efficiently reduced BP (blood pressure)

So that 100g bar of 70% choccy that I just ate should have done me some good?

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^(*)If you have not read about hypertension in gout sufferers, you should subscribe to my newsletter. You will get a link to the back issues when you do. Look for the second issue.

Tags: gout-sufferers, _hypertension

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