High Blood Pressure Fruit & Veg Tests with Free Chocolate
High Blood Pressure Fruit & Veg Tests with Free Chocolate Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke along with the Northern Ireland Research and Development Office, are to have chocolate delivered to the homes of a group of their 110 volunteers for the opening stage of a new three year research study of people with high blood pressure starting in August. These volunteers will be encouraged to eat 50gm of chocolate every day for eight weeks as part of the new study to discover if a high fruit and vegetable diet incorporating dark chocolate and berries is better for the cardiovascular system than a diet low in fruit and vegetables. Doctor Pascal McKeown who is leading the study stated that the important thing is that the chocolate being used will be high in cocoa as standard milk chocolate has nothing like the polyphenol content of dark chocolate. Half the group of volunteers will be put on an ordinary UK diet which shows that most people tend to include only two port...