Saturday 1 February 2014

Chocolate.

Ok so now I'm gonna talk about a topic that you all must have eaten at least once in your life. Infact it's better then being in love, Scientifically proved.
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” 
― Linda Grayson
Learn something about your new love.

It is a Aphrodisiac


Forget death by chocolate. More and more research is showing that high quality, dark chocolate (or cocoa or cacao) may actually improve your health. Here are 13 reasons to love chocolate:
1.  Chocolate, cocoa, and cacao are high in the mineral magnesium which is essential for over 500 functions in your body, including:  heart health and muscle function.
2.  Chocolate may reduce the risk of heart failure.  Murray Mittleman and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School studied data on 31,823 middle-aged and elderly Swedish women to assess the relationship between chocolate and heart failure.  The women who consumed an average of one to two servings (that’s a fairly small amount) of high-quality, cocoa-rich chocolate per week had a 32 percent lower risk of experiencing heart failure.  Those women who ate one to three servings a month had a 26 percent lower risk of heart failure.  See my article “Nutrient Slashes Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Osteoporosis” for more information about how magnesium reduces the risk of many illnesses.
3.  Cocoa and cacao contain plant nutrients called proanthocyanidins. These phytonutrients have been shown in research to protect against carcinogens and nervous system toxins.


Chocolate contains two ingredients which stimulate the sex drive:
the chemical tryptophan which is a building block for serotonin ( a brain chemical involved in sexual arousal.)
Tryptophan has not been proven to 100& to have an effect on the human body in form of sexual arousal.

But the amino acid phenylethylamine is proven.
Phenylethylamine is a stimulant related to amphetamine ( which is released in the brain when people fall in love.)

Family Or Friends?

If there’s one universal rule, it’s that nothing is perfect. Every person, place, or thing has some great qualities and some big drawbacks. So it’s no surprise when it comes to the importance of family vs. friends that, as clichéd as it sounds, there are good and bad elements in both groups. (Or, depending on your experience, some very good or very bad elements.)
With the holiday season approaching, it’s almost inevitable that images about happy multi-generational families sitting around a table come to mind.  No family on earth is ever Norman Rockwell perfect, but as we get older the memories of those gatherings often become more poignant.
And that’s not just our mind playing tricks on us. The hard reality is that there may not be that many people around the table anymore. Older relatives die, our kids move away, or we do, and suddenly holidays can become an occasion to get through (or even ignore) rather than a day to enjoy. And if you’ve moved elsewhere to retire, even a non-holiday visit back to your old town can be a source of overwhelmingly bittersweet memories. But family can provide a comforting refuge for us. A long, shared history and even a house that has been a home for decades can give us a strong sense of stability.

My Opinion:

Friends. Real friends, the ones that support you no matter what and you support them.
Everyone always says "family, because you're related" or whatever, but I'd rather have someone who WANTS to be a part of me, not just someone genetically forced to be. Remember, family can be your friends, too!