Got Peripheral Artery Disease? Eat Dark Chocolate.
The Director of the Vascular Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, MA), Mark Creager, MD, reports findings from a recent study of patients ages 60 to 78 with PAD. When they ate 1.5 ounces of chocolate with at least 85% cocoa they walked 11% farther and 15% longer than they previously were able to walk. The high concentration of polyhenols in dark chocolate are antioxidants that seem to improve blood flow the lower extremities. It only takes 1.5 ounces.
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