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...

You won’t believe putting this in your navel will help you with colds, the flu, cough, abdominal and menstrual pain


This is a tested folk remedy method to treat various conditions in folk medicine, which is setting a cotton with brandy to the navel. Using this method the whole body relaxes and gets rid of pain. This method is very effective when we have the flu, we have a colds or sore muscles. An alternative to using over the counter medications. When you cough, have a cold or the flu simply soak cotton in brandy, push it nicely and put it in the navel. You can stick with duct tape, light tape, a band aid or cover it with a nylon bag and a cloth. Whatever is most comfortable to you.


During menstrual pain use the same method, stay in the supine position and press cotton with hands. To avoid vomiting during travel, as well as to ease the pain in your stomach, you can do the following: Soak cotton in brandy, push it, sprinkle with salt and stick it on the the navel.

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