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Wanted: Women to Eat Lots of Chocolate

If you're past the menopause age, are suffering from type two diabetes and have a fondness for chocolate, a team of researchers at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital definitely have the perfect job for you. You will need your GP's approval to embark on this quest, but once you get that, you're...

6 June 2008
12:29 GMT

Chocolate Lowers Cholesterol

Since childhood, you've been hearing that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat, but now, a now a series of researches have been made to show the beneficial health effects of chocolate. There is only one condition though: it must have as much cocoa as possible, even up to 60-75%. Thus, we're talki...

22 April 2008
02:37 GMT

Women Would Disclose Their Passwords for a Chocolate Bar

God, this sounds funny... Women would be ready to disclose their passwords with the promise that they'll get a chocolate bar! Fortunately, it was only a research conducted by Infosecurity Europe over 576 office workers in UK. The ones who conducted the survey have set up a whole scenario: the employees who talke...

16 April 2008
17:41 GMT

LG KF600 Review

The third ranked Asian handset manufacturer, Korean-based company LG, throws on the market another device that will probably make you drool. The new LG KF600 is the right successor of both Chocolate and Shine series that received so many awards in the past. Unfortunately, all the prizes received by LG's mobile p...

2 April 2008
09:11 GMT

How Is Chocolate Made?

The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) is believed to have originated in South America, in the basins of Amazon or Orinoco. In 1502, Columbus was the first European to encounter the tree during his fourth voyage, but he completely ignored the fruits resembling a melon. Two decades later, Hernan Cortes observed with amazeme...

29 January 2008
07:03 GMT

Chocolate Is Bad for Your Bones!

Chocolate may induce more harm than increased fatty deposits on the undesired locations. A new research carried out at the University of Western Australia and published in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition" shows that regular chocolate consumption could cause weaker bones and osteoporosis. Female subjects ...

28 January 2008
04:09 GMT

Is the Dark Chocolate Really Healthy?

What they told you when you were a child that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat has got an odd twist: many researches are coming with an avalanche of good effects chocolate has on your health. That's why many do not bother finding an excuse for tucking in chocolate, especially if dark. And with the...

28 December 2007
03:36 GMT

Top 6 Foods That Boost Memory

The exam sessions mean mental and physical exhaustion. But there are some mental vitalizers helping you finish the course without problems or stress. After various hours of studying, the eyes get tired too. Tired eyes can be relieved by washing the area with fresh water, which gives a refreshing and relaxing sensatio...

10 December 2007
14:06 GMT

LG FM33 Mp3 Player Review

LG Labs are the ones responsible for setting an obsessive chocolate trend in the electronics industry. It put chocolate in almost every gadget they roll out and the FM33 media player is no exception.However, if you happen to get hooked on the idea of mixing gastronomy with gadgetry, you should check out this portable...

23 November 2007
04:58 GMT

Would You Disclose Your Credit Card Info For A Chocolate Bar?

Since the credit cards contain so much information about your money, an important part of today's attacks are obviously targeting them as the hackers aim to steal users' credentials and get access to their accounts. Gunter Ollmann of Frequency X wrote that along with credit cards and identity info, the pass...

23 November 2007
03:02 GMT

New Discovery: Chocolate is 3,000 Years Old!

Perhaps you cannot imagine life without chocolate. And many women give up sex for chocolate easily. Now we know when it was discovered: over 3,000 years ago, five centuries earlier than previously thought. A new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that chocolate was an "acciden...

13 November 2007
04:05 GMT

LG Venus, the Sexy Slider Phone

Recent information concerning LG Venus has surfaced, reviving the Chocolate concept with a fresh design, but similar ambitions. The phone brings some bold features that few other similar devices have dared to bring up to this point.LG Venus should open the door to a new line of handsets that will replace the highly s...

31 October 2007
09:10 GMT

13 Reasons Why Chocolate Is Good for Your Health and Sexuality

Since you were a child you've been told that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat; well, now, scientists in fact recommend chocolate as being even more efficient than many drugs in preventing and treating various conditions. On one condition, though: it must have as much cocoa as possible, even 60-75%...

17 October 2007
14:06 GMT

Addictive Fine Piece of Chocolate MP3 Player, From Brando!! Yummy...

The USB Chocolate MP3 player from Brando looks like a piece of white chocolate, indeed. It even weighs the same, meaning a mere 12 grams of technology. I mean you could lose this fellow in the dryer, drop it in the sink, or even in your dog's mouth.With no connection whatsoever, I know another Chocolate MP3 pla...

10 October 2007
07:36 GMT

Chocolate Fights off Fatigue

Chocolate is known to be good for memory, sex drive, tooth health, mood and long life. But a new dark chocolate formula could also fight against symptoms of the chronic fatigue syndrome. A pilot trial made at Hull York Medical School revealed that subjects experienced less fatigue when consuming dark chocolate with a...

2 October 2007
05:41 GMT

Is Chocolate Really Addictive?

Chocolate advertising often centers on naïve sexy women lured by men with chocolate. Still, there is barely any proof that this widely desired kind of sweets causes real addiction. "Rather, chocolate is irresistible partly because we know we're not supposed to have too much. People readily label themselves choco...

12 September 2007
03:34 GMT

8 Urban Myths about Foods

Urban myths have some common points: they are absurd, and the more absurd they are, the more widespread they get. Myths about food make some people pay attention rather to what an illiterate has to say than a doctor in nutrition. However, in many cases, these myths manage to confuse and mystify even educated people. ...

1 August 2007
14:31 GMT

LG KU580 Fatty Chocolate Mobile Phone

LG's biggest hit has been by far the Chocolate mobile phone until now. Although it highly resembles this success, LG KU580 fails in being one itself.LG KU580 mobile phone is also named the Hero, for an undefined reason. This is an elegant handset, with an impressive finishing. The case has smooth, straight lines...

6 June 2007
09:50 GMT

Food That Boosts Memory

Chocolate, tea, grapes and blueberries seem to have nothing in common except the fact they share a molecule found to improve memory abilities in mice. Further trials at the Salk Institute assessed if epicatechin has the same effects on humans. Previous researches showed that epicatechin improves the brain blood flow,...

1 June 2007
08:55 GMT

Chocolate Against Tooth Decay

What do you think about chocolate toothpaste? It's exactly the bitterest chemical found in chocolate, theobromine, which encourages the fight against cavities. This chemical, a molecule similar to caffeine, is also a stimulant. Preliminary tests revealed to a Tulane team that this chemical is more efficient than...

31 May 2007
15:36 GMT

Edible Anus Chocolates. That Pretty Much Says It All...

Have you ever had one of those days when you had to buy a present for your friend/mother/lover and nothing came to mind? You know, those times when you wandered from shop to shop, gazing at windows like an idiot, not being able to settle on something that your friend/mother/lover would love? Or those days you would w...

3 May 2007
11:22 GMT

LG Preparing New 'Blockbuster' Handset

After its recent success with, well, all of its products, LG has announced that it may consider launching another groundbreaking model later this year. This follows LG Shine's record breaking sales number of over one million units. The company recorded massive sales with its Chocolate phone as well, and the Pra...

26 April 2007
08:53 GMT

For The Sake of Mobile Phones

To adapt to the new trend in which everybody judges you according to the mobile phone you own, youths tend to reanalize their priority list, in favor of mobile phones.It is reported that more and more teenagers give up smoking, eating chocolate or buying CDs to save money for a newly released gadget in order to impre...

16 April 2007
10:11 GMT

Chocolate Induces Much More Pleasure Than Kissing

Lovers say "sweet kisses", but in the end they would rather indulge themselves with chocolate ... Because what melting chocolate triggers lasts much linger than the sensation after a passionate kiss, as a team at the University of Sussex has proven. Couples in their 20s were monitored for their heart rates (with hear...

16 April 2007
09:36 GMT

Chocolate Instead of Antibiotics

Chocolate has been found to present various health benefits, related to sex life, mood, blood, heart and brain. And this is not all. "The health benefits of epicatechin, a compound found in cocoa, are so striking that it may rival penicillin and anesthesia in terms of importance to public health," signaled Marina Mur...

12 March 2007
05:22 GMT

Buy a Pizza and Get a Free LG Chocolate

The places you can get a cellphone from have become more numerous each day but never in my whole life have I thought or even heard about getting a mobile phone from some shop selling pizzas. Although Pizza Hut isn't exactly your usual small grocery store, I'm sure no one would ever think they can get in, bu...

1 March 2007
11:02 GMT




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