Tag: Chocolate - Page 2
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Functional Chocolates for Basket Cases
With Easter comes egg hunts, peeps and chocolate bunnies. It's a sugar fest. So how can we indulge in bonbons and reap some health benefits? Studies show that cocoa
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Is Chocolate the Tastiest Natural Cough Medicine of All?
As if we needed another excuse to have some chocolate, new research shows that it may be an effective cough suppressant, too.New Scientist
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Brand Jamming Contest to Demand Hershey's End Child Labor, Human Rights Abuses
There's been a lot of attention paid to fair trade chocolate and to the underlying child and forced labor issues involved in chocolate production. But one of the slowest companies to act on these issues is Hershey's
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Stunning Food Magnification Photos Reveal Your Meal in Microscopic Detail (Slideshow)
She uses scientific equipment to magnify and capture the
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Stunning Food Magnification Photos Reveal Your Meal in Microscopic Detail
Caren Alpert spent 18 years as a photo editor and food photographer before turning her artist's eye to the things we see every day but never look closely at: What we eat. She uses scientific equipment to magnify and capture the striking surfaces of ever
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'Conscious Cocoa' Hot Chocolate Recipe
Lowering the thermostat is a good, green thing. And I mentioned last week, it could surprisingly help you lose weight. Those of us in cold climes less in for the weight loss and more in for a cooler planet, are trying to keep the
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Fast Food Advertising is On the Rise -- With a Focus on Minority Youth -- While Kids Continue to Grow Fatter. What's Wrong With This Picture?
It's definitely not news that America's children have an obesity problem and that it's largely due to fast food and junk/snack foods—nor is it a surprise that fast food restaurants use aggressive and
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Experts Warn of a Looming Chocolate Crisis
In a world that takes for granted the availability of delicious and affordable chocolate, it's easy to forget that the popular product actually comes from trees -- not magical elves or free-flowing cocoa rivers, sadly. But, some
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No Trick Treats Maps Healthy Halloween Candy
For the health conscious like me, Halloween candy that can lend to ill health is as spooky as un-fairly traded choco treats. I hate sounding like the grim reaper and all, but it's science -- not this blogger -- linking childhood
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Candy and Costumes for a Sweet and Spooky Green Halloween (Slideshow)
Calling Halloween an environmental terror might be going a bit far, but the impact of those one-night-only costumes, pounds of candy (about 24 per person in 2007), and plastic pumpkin candy totes is undeniably scary.
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Candy and Costumes for a Sweet and Spooky Green Halloween
Few things about Halloween are scarier than the over-consumption that goes along with it: One-time use costumes, processed candy by the bag-full, and off-the-shelf makeup full of mysterious chemicals are just the beginning. This year, leave the tricks to
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High Blood Pressure? 10 Food Swaps to Bring it Down
While blood pressure raises and lowers naturally, sustained elevation -- otherwise known as high blood pressure, or hypertension -- can damage your heart, kidneys, and even brain. More than 65 million Americans have the condition -- caused by stress, a
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Chocri Customized Chocolate Bars: Organic, Fair Trade, Tasty
As a dark chocolate fan who happens to be surrounded by some of the tastiest locally made cocoa treats (like Brooklyn's Mast Brother's Chocolates)--I wouldn't often put in an overseas order for German-made bars. I like chocolate but I don't need a
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England's World Cup Squad Eats Healthy and (Some) Organic
The World Cup 2010 (in soccer) is being held in South Africa next month and the excitement, or should we say hysteria is building by the minute. A country watches with bated breath: who is going, who is injured, what the wives and
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Un-TreeHugger: Get Cocoa Puffs (Literally) with Le Whif Chocolate Inhaler
Sometimes the whole "zero calorie" thing goes too far, like when it comes to enjoying chocolate. The latest thing is a chocolate inhaler called Le Whif. Yep, you read that right. Inhaling - and not in the figurative sense - is actually a way to consume
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10 Healthy Aphrodisiac Foods to Eat Before Bedtime
Valentine's day is not the only day to go to bed early: These 10 reputed aphrodisiacs will boost your bedroom experience to a whole new realm any night of the year. The health benefits will do your body good even out of the bedroom, including lowering cho
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Is Fair Trade Chocolate Fair Enough?
Okay, you won't be giving your sweetheart a Kit Kat bar for Valentine's Day, but hopefully your gift of chocolate bonbons was fair trade -- and organic. Kit Kat, the chocolate
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10 Healthy Aphrodisiac Foods to Eat Before Bedtime (Slideshow)
Valentine's day is over, but that doesn't mean the bedroom needs to be a place just for sleeping the rest of the year. The measurable affect of any food on your sexual prowess is still up for debate, but that doesn't mean
