I guess the key word in this article is can.

Dark Chocolate can lower blood pressure.

I say that because during one of my lower-moods after I had Ada, Mac surprised me with what had to be about $70 worth of really good chocolate from World Market. I have the highest blood pressure I’ve ever had in my life. I still have quite a bit of it left, so maybe I’m not eating enough of it.

From the article:

White chocolate, which has no flavonoids, was the perfect control food because it contains all the other ingredients and calories found in dark chocolate…

Not only is white chocolate missing flavonoids, it is missing a soul. Blech. Anybody who is stuck eating white chocolate* would understandably have high blood pressure. The stuff is horrific.

*It even pains me to call it chocolate at all.