Don't you love it when those health researchers actually come up with something easy to do that could improve our health? Chocolate to lower blood pressure? Yeah, I can handle that! Of course, they throw in a "Yes, but".... "yes but, it should be dark chocolate.....really dark. Well, I'm a chocolate lover, I can still handle it pretty dark." I won't give up my blood pressure pills though. Not yet. I hope I'm smart enough that, when those "folks" tell me that dark chocolate .... to quote:
"is comparable to the known effects of 30 daily minutes of physical activity (4-9mm Hg) and could theoretically reduce the risk of a cardiovascular event by about 20% over five years," that I don't think "goody, goody, I'll eat my dark chocolate bar and skip the exercise." I'd sure like to. I hate to exercise and to make dark chocolate eatable I'll probably want some sweetener, which means calories.
I wonder if chasing after this new puppy I got will count for exercise. Pets are supposed to make you live longer. Puppy love and dark chocolate--two new things I've added to my life for health.
(I've also added a silly reputation with the local sheriff when we on the street couldn't find my new pup and were just sure he had been "doggy napped". "After all," I said "Isn't he so cute it is reasonable to assume someone would steal him?" You can imagine what our patient sheriff said. Oh yes, puppy was so tired being "cute" that he had crawled under the bed and gone to sleep.
Send suggestions to Veda Hale Box 956, Panguitch, Utah 84759 or email vedahale@yahoo.com
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