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.
With the blockbuster cholesterol-lowering class of drugs known as statins being widely promoted for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, despite their having over 300 documented adverse health effects (including heart failure!), how does chocolate sound as a viable, heart-friendly alternative?
For aging men watching their vitality slowly drain away each year, a proprietary botanical blend represents newfound hope of restoring lost vigor and masculinity
When the wintry flu season strikes do you crave a comforting cup of hot cocoa? It could be your body's innate wisdom at work.
Nature works in mysterious ways. Just when cold, dry weather chills us to the bone and flu season is in full bloom, we crave a comforting cup of hot cocoa. As it turns out, that chocolate craving may be our body's innate wisdom at work.
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.
Have you visited your local pharmacy lately? I recommend it as a bit of a reality check. Check out the stuff for sale near the cash register - that's the stuff they want to catch your eye as you pay, hoping you'll "pick up something extra," the stuff with the highest profit margin.
But before you head out, a few words about placebos.