News Stories relating to "chocolate"

Laugh & eat chocolate - Laughter is a highly complex process. Joyous or mirthful laughter is considered a positive stress that leads to a positive effect on health. It can help you STAY IN SHAPE! And if you're not laughing enough, you're probably eating chocolate.

Dr. Lee S. Berk has shown that repetitious "mirthful...

Finally?a prescription we WANT to take! Eating about 30 calories a day of dark chocolate is associated with a lowering of blood pressure, without weight gain or other adverse effects. And scientists now insist that chocolate isn't REALLY addictive.

Previous research has indicated that consumption of high amounts of cocoa-containing foods...

You may think that describes YOU, if you find yourself craving that delicious serotonin-raising substance. Most of us are slaves to chocolate, but what it REALLY describes is the child labor used to pick cocoa beans in West Africa.

In the Independent, Humphrey Hawksley describes conditions on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast, where?despite...

Scientists just can't leave well enough alone. They've produced GM corn and inedible tomatoes, but now they've gone too far?they?ve re-engineered chocolate.

Would we want to eat chocolate that didn't melt? Even though it was discovered in what is now Mexico and most of it is grown in the tropics, chocolate isn't eaten much in hot...

A lawsuit was filed in May saying that chocolate contains levels of lead and cadmium that could be dangerous to children. The American Environmental Safety Institute went to court in Los Angeles claiming that some of the nation's largest candy makers have known about the presence of the heavy metals in their products, but have not done anything...