Chocolate offers unique slimming and longevity benefits and serves as a natural strategy for helping to prevent chronic disease. Learn the "good" type and ideal amounts to consume for optimal health

Studies point out that chocolate may not only make life sweet but also helps lengthen it. Chocolate isn't a recent invention; its health benefits date back to ancient times, when the Aztecs made a chocolate drink from the cacao bean.

You know chocolate tastes great. But now science has delivered the best news yet: Dark chocolate may just be nature’s perfect superfood

Green tea may well be the healthiest drink on the planet.  For many, the tea and its extracts hold great promise as potential treatments for cancer. But scientists had never identified how green tea helps reduce the risk of cancer.

Now researchers from Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center have figured out how green tea works. 

In a study published online by the journal Metabolomics[i] they explain how an active constituent in green tea changes the metabolism of cancer cells. 

Did you stop drinking chocolate milk sometime around middle school?  Well, researchers just gave grownups a reason to indulge in this childhood treat.  It turns out that chocolate milk (relative to plain milk) is heart healthy. 

Spanish researchers compared the effects of plain milk and chocolate milk in a randomized, controlled, cross-over, free-living study.  The subjects included 24 healthy people and 20 people with moderately high cholesterol.