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Devil's food cake has chocolate and Satan fights GOD's Angel Food and
Satan wants to tempt everyone to eat Satan's  Devil Food cake.

Sometimes even an editorial in Lancet can be on a wrong track. The so-called
Dutch process does reduce bitterness and the amount of flavanols of
chocolate but it does not complitely destroy them. Even if lower in
flavanols the intake of common cocoa products is associated with reduced
cardiovascular and all-cause mortality as this Dutch study strongly
suggests.

Arch Intern Med. 2006 Feb 27;166(4):411-7.
Cocoa intake, blood pressure, and cardiovascular mortality: the Zutphen
Elderly Study.
Buijsse B, Feskens EJ, Kok FJ, Kromhout D.
Center for Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health and
the Environment, Bilthoven, and Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen
University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

BACKGROUND: Small, short-term, intervention studies indicate that
cocoa-containing foods improve endothelial function and reduce blood
pressure. We studied whether habitual cocoa intake was cross-sectionally
related to blood pressure and prospectively related with cardiovascular
mortality. METHODS: Data used were of 470 elderly men participating in the
Zutphen Elderly Study and free of chronic diseases at baseline. Blood
pressure was measured at baseline and 5 years later, and causes of death
were ascertained during 15 years of follow-up. Habitual food consumption was
assessed by the cross-check dietary history method in 1985, 1990, and 1995.
Cocoa intake was estimated from the consumption of cocoa-containing foods.
RESULTS: One third of the men did not use cocoa at baseline. The median
cocoa intake among users was 2.11 g/d. After adjustment, the mean systolic
blood pressure in the highest tertile of cocoa intake was 3.7 mm Hg lower
(95% confidence interval [CI], -7.1 to -0.3 mm Hg; P = .03 for trend) and
the mean diastolic blood pressure was 2.1 mm Hg lower (95% CI, -4.0 to -0.2
mm Hg; P = .03 for trend) compared with the lowest tertile. During
follow-up, 314 men died, 152 of cardiovascular diseases. Compared with the
lowest tertile of cocoa intake, the adjusted relative risk for men in the
highest tertile was 0.50 (95% CI, 0.32-0.78; P = .004 for trend) for
cardiovascular mortality and 0.53 (95% CI, 0.39-0.72; P < .001) for
all-cause mortality. CONCLUSION: In a cohort of elderly men, cocoa intake is
inversely associated with blood pressure and 15-year cardiovascular and
all-cause mortality. PMID: 16505260

http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/166/4/411