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Daily Dose of Dark Chocolate Helps the Heart: Study

Eating a little bit of dark chocolate every day can reduce blood pressure without causin... States. Previous research has shown that eating chocolate can lower blood pressure, but doctors have worried that any benefit could be offset by high doses of...

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

...esearch suggest that eating a small amount of dark chocolate each day could lower blood pressure and cut the risk of stroke. Dark chocolate is not only good for your heart , it may also stave off hardening of the arteries among smokers, and...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...by American mobsters that was to be slipped into a chocolate milkshake, a former Cuban intelligence chief said. But the capsule stuck to the freezer where it was hidden in the cafeteria of the Havana Libre (ex Hilton) Hotel and ripped open when the would-be assassin waiter went to get the poison. "That mom...

Fat Tax Could Avoid Considerable Amount of Heart Attack and Stroke Deaths Annually

... of a food. For example, spinach scores -12, while chocolate digestive biscuits score +29. In the third approach they widened the range of foodstuffs taxed to cut fat, salt, and sugar intake for maximum health. The calculations showed that applying VAT to foodstuffs high in saturated fats would increase sa...

Nicole Kidman Can't Resist Chocolate Cakes

...tress Nicole Kidman has confessed her weakness for chocolate cakes . The 'Hours' actress recently owned up to munching an entire chocolate cake every week. Kidman admitted that she could gulp down a huge slice of cake every night, but ha...

Food Cravings are Linked to Weight Managenemt

...t Tufts University. Energy-dense foods, such as chocolate and some salty snacks, are those that pack the most calories per unit of volume, explains Cheryl Gilhooly, PhD, MPH, research dietitian and first author of the study, as compared to less energy-dense foods like fruits and vegetables, which have fewer...

Nutritious Diet Help Improve Childrens Academic Performance

...hite milk or water to drink. Calories and sugar in chocolate milk, juices and pop add up quickly. When school lunch menus are printed in advance, help children decide on a balanced lunch before leaving the house. Encourage children to choose green vegetables and fruits with the entre. Pizza and chicken f...

Weight Management Achieved by Controlling and Not Suppressing Food Cravings

...t Tufts University. Energy-dense foods, such as chocolate and some salty snacks, are those that pack the most calories per unit of volume, as compared to less energy-dense foods like fruits and vegetables, which have fewer calories per unit of volume, explains Cheryl Gilhooly, PhD, MPH, research dietitian a...

Timberlake's Tour Demands Include 'anti-gas Tablets'!

...entioned uninterrupted supply of delicious Hershey chocolate bars throughout the tour....

Worried of Acne? Cut Down Milk

...spotty teenager has been told to lay off chips and chocolate if they want clear skin but a research carried out... raised the risk of the condition; however, chips, chocolate and pizza did not, the scientists said. Writing in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatol...

Chocolate-makers Reverse Decision to Go for Animal Enzyme

Leading chocolate brand Mars would stay vegetarian after all. Its manufacturer, Masterfoods, had raised a storm when it announced that it had started using rennet - an enzyme taken from the stomachs of newborn calves - to make whey for its products. It had prev...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...ods, that are high in fat or sugar (such as pizza, chocolate and ice cream), often leading to a sense of reward. The pramlintide group reduced fast food intake by 385 calories on day 44 during the fast-food challenge, compared to the placebo group, which decreased their intake by 109 calories. Those taking pra...

Health Drink Blamed for Persistent Penile Erection

...ited volume''. Boost Plus is available in vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. The company is aware of the lawsuit, accepted a spokesperson unwilling to comment on the litigation pending before the courts....

Now, a Kettle That Will Give a Cup of Tea in Just Three Seconds

...t enough to work with all types of dried soup, hot chocolate or a Pot Noodle. The company also warns that it would not be hot enough to make the sterile water needed to reconstitute dried baby milk. Initially, the Quick Cup will be available only from Currys, where it will be sold from July 1....

Cadbury to Introduce Healthier, Low Calorie Sweets to Health Conscious Consumers

Now, chocolate aficionados will not have to think twice before in...me the "Holy Grail" of sweet makers, a low-calorie chocolate bar that tastes no different to a normal milk chocolate. "We have scientists in laboratories worki...

Simple Changes in Diet Could Improve Sex Life of Women

... US suggests that a combination of fish oils, dark chocolate and controlling carbohydrate intake may be all that's needed, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. In her book "The Orgasmic Diet", author Marrena Lindberg has created a programme that she says not only boosts the sex drive, but aids weight l...

Cadbury Indicted on Salmonella Scare

The chocolate giants Cadbury have to pay heavily for the salmone...of failing to identify ‘hazards’ from the infected chocolate and take adequate measures to rectify it. This was the breach of Food Hygiene (England) Regulations ...

Kiss a Chocolate and Tell

...study has shown that the sensation of melting to a chocolate gave an intense high, far more than the thrill of ... hearts to sink has shown that simply melting to a chocolate is equivalent to hugging and kissing your loved one, four times. Pamela Anderson of Baywatch fame wa...

Blood Pressure Tackled Better With Cocoa Than Tea

...substitute phenol-rich cocoa products such as dark chocolate for other high-calorie or high-fat desserts or dairy products, they continue. 'We believe that any dietary advice must account for the high sugar, fat and calorie intake with most cocoa products,' the authors conclude. 'Rationally applied, cocoa prod...

Cocoa Polyphenols may Offer Diabetes Benefits - Study

...terest, with studies reporting that flavonoid-rich chocolate may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. How...ocolate. However, studies using flavonol-rich dark chocolate have reported positive effects with intakes of only 100 g of dark chocolate per day, providing a fla...

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