Can’t stand hot food? Then you’ll have lots of warning if you have a heart attack, because the receptors that give you a burning sensation from eating chili peppers are the same ones that sense chest pain during a heart attack. “Silent” heart attacks, which strike without warning, may take place in people who are insensitive to these receptors, which are located on the outer surface of the heart. And to keep your heart healthy, you should take the Chocolate Cure.
Amanda Gardner writes in HealthDayNews that dark chocolate and cocoa are good for the heart because they contain polyphenol compounds. Thirteen people, aged 55 to 64, who had high blood pressure, were randomly told to eat either dark chocolate bars (with 500 milligrams of polyphenols) or white chocolate, (with no polyphenols). People who ate the dark chocolate had lower blood pressure in ten days. Nutritionist Samantha Heller says, “If you want a chocolate treat once in a while, the bitterer the better and don’t feel badly about it.”
Speaking of food, what are those mysterious blue apples that William Henry talks about?
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