9 Health Benefits of Chocolate

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Superfoods don't just come from your supermarket's produce aisle. In fact those chocolate candy bars next to the gummy bears now qualify. Study after study proves that dark chocolate—sweet, rich, and delicious—is good for more than curing a broken heart. The secret behind its powerful punch is cacao, also the source of the sweet's distinct taste. Packed with healthy chemicals like flavonoids and theobromine, this little bean is a disease-killing bullet. The only problem? Cacao on its own is bitter, chalky, nasty stuff. Enter milk, sugar, and butter—good for your taste buds, not always good for your health. Besides adding calories, these can dilute the benefits of cacao. So snack smart: Stick to healthy chocolate with at least 70 percent cacao (or cocoa, which is cacao in its roasted, ground form). As long as the content is that high, says Mary Engler, Ph.D., a professor of physiological nursing at the University of California at San Francisco, you can reap the be
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Experts Warn It's 'Too Sexual' to Smooch Your Kids on the Lips

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Just when you think it was cool to show your little one some TLC, here comes the fun police. As much as you want to love up on your kid, experts now say kissing your child on the mouth is bad because it's "too sexual."

if you can stop laughing for a second, you'll see that Dr. Charlotte Reznick, author of The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety Into Joy And Success, is trying to be serious. She believes a "kiss on the lips can be stimulating" and that might confuse a child. Dr. Reznick even goes as far to remind us how lips are an erogenous zone. "If mommy kisses daddy on the mouth and vice versa, what does that mean, when I, a little girl or boy, kiss my parents on the mouth?" Dr. Charlotte questions.

 So what's a parent supposed to do when their child walks up (or stumbles, depending on their current level of coordination) and tries to plant one on the kisser? Do some funky Matrix move or swat them away in disgust? Well folks, it looks like Olivia Benson, the Special Victims Unit, and Chris Hansen are all coming to my house. I'll be sure to leave the light on. Experts can make it really hard to follow their recommendations when they say stuff like this.

Yes, parents might want to keep certain behaviors in check -- like, I don't know, tonguing down your spouse and grabbing each other's private boxes in front of your kids -- but a simple kiss on the lips doesn't seem that harmful to me. In fact, in many cultures, you greet each other with a peck on the cheek. More from The Stir: Kids Kissing Kids: When Should You Worry? Thankfully there are others who don't see the harm in kissing your child on the lips.

 "There's absolutely no way that kissing a young child on the lips is confusing for them in any way," says clinical psychologist Sally-Anne McCormack. "That's like saying breastfeeding is confusing. Some people might have issues with it, but it isn't any more sexual than giving a baby a back rub." Maybe there's an expiration date for parents and children kissing each other on the lips before it turns creepy (McCormack notes most kids will stop on their own), but I have yet to get that memo. It all comes down to a personal preference and what works for your family.

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