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Students Who Drank the Juice Showed Less Pain and Loss of Strength After Exercise

By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Medical News

June 20, 2006 -- Drinking cherry juice before and after exercise may lessen workout-related muscle pain and damage.

That's the bottom line from a study published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Researchers included Declan Connolly, PhD, of the University of Vermont's Human Performance Laboratory.

The study looked at 14 male college students who were given one of two drinks over a period of several days: tart cherry juice mixed with apple juice, or a cherry-flavored soft drink lacking cherry juice (placebo). Researchers compared their scores on various tests, including muscle strength and muscle pain.

  Web MD

Well chocolate, or rather certain ingredients in chocolate, is supposed to help one's muscles to recover from exercise, particuarly from weight-training and muscle straining.  Hmmm, it would seem MacRobertson's Cherry Ripes should do that too!  :D

I bet the price of cherries will go up now.  :P

Now I have an excuse to plant cherry trees.  ;D