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theobromophileChocolate, Nature’s perfect food.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Indulging in chocolate during pregnancy could help ward off a serious complication known as preeclampsia, new research suggests.
Chocolate, especially dark chocolate, is rich in a chemical called theobromine, which stimulates the heart, relaxes smooth muscle and dilates blood vessels, and has been used to treat chest pain, high blood pressure, and hardening of the arteries, Dr. Elizabeth W. Triche of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and colleagues write.
Preeclampsia, in which blood pressure spikes during pregnancy while excess protein is released into the urine, has many features in common with heart disease, the researchers add.
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Not that I ever want children… but YAY!!!! Woo-hoo!!!
Heh. I think I’ll get a chocolate bar for SwampMan, tell him he won’t get preeclampsia if he eats it.
Now if they could just find some way of packaging the stuff in various ways, so chocolate would be accessible and enjoyable to everyone.