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Giving Web Users a No Cost Alternative (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

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Dark chocolate not enough to lower blood pressure (The State)

While research has shown that dark chocolate can help lower blood pressure, those studies required eating a large amount of chocolate to achieve the benefits. So the calories will really add up if you use this sweet as a health aid. How does dark chocolate work its magic? The cocoa in dark chocolate contains plant chemicals known as polyphenols, which seem to relax blood vessels. A German study ...

Junk food ads hard to defend, inquiry told (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Australian Psychological Society has told a Senate inquiry there is almost no justification for continuing to allow junk food advertising to be directly aimed at children.

The ABCs and 123s of diabetes (South Bend Tribune)

Here is a statistic from the American Diabetes Association that caught my attention: "If current trends continue, one out of three Americans and one in two minorities born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime."

The dark truth about healthful chocolate (Island Packet)

While research has shown that dark chocolate can help to lower blood pressure, those studies required eating a large amount of chocolate to achieve the benefits.