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Health
Benefits:
If
chocolate is good for the unborn children, then it must be good for
everybody.. Please read.
Chocolate
may reduce pregnancy complication risk
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.
To investigate whether chocolate's possible
cardiovascular benefits also might help prevent preeclampsia, the
researchers looked at 2,291 women who delivered a single infant, and
asked them about how much chocolate they consumed in their first and
third trimesters. The researchers also tested levels of theobromine
in infants' umbilical cord blood.
Women who consumed the most chocolate and those whose
infants had the highest concentration of theobromine in their cord
blood were the least likely to develop preeclampsia. Women in the
highest quarter for cord blood theobromine were 69 percent less
likely to develop the complication than those in the lowest
quarter.
Women who ate five or more servings of chocolate each
week in their third trimester of
pregnancy were 40 percent less likely to develop preeclampsia
than those who ate chocolate less than once a
week.
A similar, but weaker, relationship between chocolate
consumption and preeclampsia risk was seen in the first trimester, with women eating five or
more servings of chocolate each week at 19 percent lower risk than
those who ate chocolate less than once a
week.
Theobromine could improve circulation within the
placenta while blocking oxidative stress, or it could also be a stand-in for
other beneficial chemicals found in chocolate, Triche and her team
note in the May issue of Epidemiology.
"Our results raise the possibility that chocolate
consumption by pregnant women may reduce the occurrence of
preeclampsia," they write. "Because of the importance of
preeclampsia as a major complication of pregnancy, replication of
these results in other large prospective studies with a detailed
assessment of chocolate consumption is
warranted."
SOURCE: Epidemiology, May
2008. |
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