If you’re up for some heavy duty physics experimenting over the weekend, you might care to try and clock the speed of light using a microwave oven and a… chocolate bar.
Place the chocolate bar (unwrapped) in the microwave oven and heat it up (without moving it) until you can see soft spots forming. If [...]

Eating small quantities of dark chocolate each day can noticeably reduce stress hormone levels:
It found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people feeling highly stressed. Everyone’s favorite treat also partially corrected other stress-related biochemical imbalances.

Maybe there is information overload, but there is no such thing as chocolate overload… a list of book titles where chocolate somehow features in the story.
And now Easter is upon us we could perhaps spend the spring holiday indulging those twin passions to the nth degree – by overdosing not only on choccy eggs but [...]

Diet and lifestyle can override disease provoking genes, and even improve brain function, says Dr. Dean Ornish in a TED video presentation.
For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase. And new findings show that a healthier lifestyle can turn off disease-provoking genes and turn [...]