Chocolate ?may have benefits for the elderly?
28 Feb 2006
Research in the Netherlands suggests that eating or drinking cocoa reduces blood pressure in older men and may reduce their risk of death. A report in the Archives of Internal Medicine by scientists at the [Dutch] National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, in Bilthoven, suggests the reduced risk of death in older men is caused not so much by reduced blood pressure, as by other benefits linked to flavan-3-ols, which are found in cocoa.