Black Chocolate is not only good consumed by hypertension and heart disease. However, the content of dark chocolate is also very good snack for pregnant women. What article?

Gynecology theobromine in dark chocolate can stimulate the heart was pointed out, making the muscles of the body feels more relaxed, and enlarge the blood vessels. Thus, for pregnant women can help prevent complications of pregnancy known as preeclampsia.

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy disorder of blood pressure elevation and the discovery of protein in the urine (proteinuria) after the 20th week of pregnancy. Complications of preeclampsia include reduced blood flow to the placenta, which can cause fetal growth, preterm birth, or death of the fetus in the womb.

Preeclampsia is a condition in which blood pressure increases during pregnancy and the high amount of protein in urine that has much in common with the symptoms of heart disease.

So what to do with the content of theobromine in dark chocolate? A study of 2291 studied mothers who had given birth to single babies. Then, the researchers in the study asked how much of their dark chocolate consumption in the first trimester and third.

The researchers also tested levels of theobromine in the umbilical cord blood of babies. The results, reported that women who ate dark chocolate and have a baby with the highest concentration of theobromine in the umbilical cord blood. Pregnant women are also reported to have a low tendency to suffer from preeclampsia.

It added, pregnant women who ate the dark chocolate on five times or more each week in the third trimester of pregnancy. Approximately 40 percent less likely to suffer from preeclampsia, compared with pregnant women who ate dark chocolate less than five times a week.

Furthermore, the correlation between the routine of eating dark chocolate and the risk of preeclampsia is also seen in the first trimester. Pregnant women who ate dark chocolate five times or more in a week have a lower risk of preeclampsia affected. Theobromine itself, has long been used to treat chest pain, high blood pressure, and strengthening the pulse.