University of Illinois study confirms chocolate's benefit

Sorry, you can't expect to sit on the couch in front of the tube every night or in an office chair in front of a computer screen all day and munch your way to health on CocoaVia bars.

But the dark chocolate and sterols, chemicals naturally occurring in plants, in the candy from Mars do appear to lower blood pressure and cholesterol, University of Illinois researchers say.

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