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We've been finding that flavanoids in dark chocolate may have a real bearing on blood pressure, cardiac wellness and more. Now there's some data that high flavanol cocoa may help people during physical exercise. New research shows high flavanol chocolate helped overweight and obese people with their blood pressure while exercising.

So, simply, it seems that high flavanol chocolate can make it safer for overweight individuals to exercise. People are seeing a number of dark chocolate studies that are consistently showing us the dark chocolate health benefits. Combine that with current studies on dark chocolate's appetite suppression qualities and we may begin to notice a whole industry pop up. The Chocolate Diet has returned! But as you see this time it has scientific dark chocolate antioxidant findings to back it up.

Warning, we did not state dark cocoa is going to cause you to lose pounds! Most cocoa available at this time at your local grocery store is big in supplemented fats, refined sugars and likely is NOT high in flavanols. Most flavanols in cocoa are demolished in the heating method of making chocolate candy. As a matter of fact, the study used a high flavanol cocoa drink. There is dark chocolate that is available with cold processed cocoa and is not "dutched" (or alkalized), but it is not readily available at your neighborhood market.

But a high flavanol cold processed dark cocoa could assist people at risk begin to exercise, reducing their risk, and beginning the process to lower their blood pressure. A blend of being able to exercise with decreased cardiovascular risk, with the appetite suppression qualities may be able to get people begin to losing weight.

Other past research has shown that dark cocoa helps with mood (which could make it simpler to begin an exercise schedule and feel awesome about it). Dark chocolate studies have made clear that high flavanol cocoa could also assist with inflammation which could help with exercise recovery times.

As always, verify with your physician, because every human being is different, before you start any different exercise or diet program. But having dark chocolate as part of a regular fitness program sure looks great to me, I adore chocolate!