a mars a day keeps the doctor away...

[ryanside]

Plant sterols in Mars chocolate bars lowers cholesterol

<a href="http://www.newstarget.com/021029.html" target="_blank">http://www.newstarget.com/021029.html</a>
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->NewsTarget) A new study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association has added legitimacy to the healthy image portrayed by Mars' CocoaVia nutritional chocolate bar, as the bars' were found to actively lower cholesterol levels in human test subjects.
University of California-Davis researchers tested the cholesterol levels of 67 men and women who had been diagnosed with high cholesterol, and then split them into two groups. The first group ate a CocoaVia bar -- which contains 1.5 grams of plant sterols -- twice a day, while the second group consumed an equivalent placebo. The CocoaVia group had reduced their total cholesterol by 4.7 percent and their LDL levels by an average of 6 percent after six weeks.

High LDL cholesterol levels increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, which is responsible for almost 50 percent of all deaths in Europe, and costs the EU roughly $202 billion every year.

“Heart health is a national public health priority and our study supports that offering consumers a great tasting, lower calorie chocolate snack product with plant sterols, like CocoaVia bars, can be a practical and enjoyable dietary strategy,â€

[Claw]

So how many would you have to eat for it to have an impact on your cholesterol levels?

As the article says, there are concerns about sugar content also with its physical and psychological effects... I think any health benefits there could be are immediately canceled out by the junk that is in them... but that's what the article says too...

Ambivalent advertising at its best...

[Clingy]

Nothing wrong with sugar, apart from contributing to tooth decay.

[ryanside]

i wonder if i eat 50 in a day my cholesterol would go down