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...

10 Brain Damaging Habits That You Must Know


No Breakfast People who do not eat breakfast are most likely to have a lowered blood sugar level. This leads to insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain, causing brain degeneration.


Overeating It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease of mental power. Smoking It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to the Alzheimer’s disease.

 High sugar consumption Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere in brain development. Air Pollution The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body.

Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen the brain needs, which leads to brain deficiency. Sleep Deprivation Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.

 Head Covered While Sleeping Sleeping with your head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide, which means that there isn’t sufficient oxygen that the brain requires and may lead to brain damaging effect.

 Working hard during illness Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damaging the brain.

 Lacking in stimulating thoughts Thinking is the best exercise for the brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage. Talking Rarely Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain.

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