I love peer-reviewed journal articles. There are so many of them. If you search hard enough you're sure to find something positive about your favorite nutritional vice.
Perhaps reading something positive about what you're eating has a placebo affect. Your brain tells you it's good for you - so your body follows suit. Wine, coffee, chocolate, full-fat dairy... just take your pick.
My vice is dark chocolate.
Fortunately for me, a recent review of research compared the impact of cocoa and tea on blood pressure and found that dark chocolate may lower blood pressure.
Four of the five studies on chocolate found reduced blood pressure after eating, but none of the tea studies showed significant benefit. The magnitude of the effect of eating three and a half ounces of dark chocolate a day was clinically significant, comparable to that of beta-blockers like atenolol, known by the brand name Tenormin, or propranolol, known as Inderal.
After a quick calculation I see that 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate also equates to around 500 calories. Also the study authors claim "that the studies were short and that results may not apply to habitual use."
I think we'll just ignore that last bit. Time to get back to my habitual dark chocolate eating.
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