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...

5 things you should know about newly approved female Viagra


The drug is being described as "female Viagra”, after a more popular medication used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, on Tuesday, August 18, 2015, approved a drug for the treatment of low sexual desire in women, the first of its kind. The drug is being described as "female Viagra”, after a more popular medication used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.

 Here are 5 things you should know about the drug:

 It is to be sold under the brand name Addyi It will be made by privately held Sprout Pharmaceuticals,
It will only be available through certified and specially trained health care professionals and pharmacies due to its safety issues.

 It’s designed for premenopausal women whose lack of sexual desire causes distress.

Unlike Viagra, which affects blood flow to the genitals, Addyi is meant to activate sexual impulses in the brain.

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