According to a study done by the German Institute of Human Nutrition, eating chocolate may lower the risk of experiencing a heart attack or stroke.  People who eat slightly more than one bar of chocolate per week had a 48% reduced risk of developing heart attack and stroke.  Dark chocolate exhibits the greatest effects followed by milk chocolate while white chocolate has no effects on lowering the risk of heart diseases.

Previous studies suggested that eating chocolate can lower blood pressure so the good news is that chocolate is not as bad as we think.  But these findings don’t mean you should stuff yourself with too much chocolate.  Chocolate is still…

Extra folic acid might increase your chances of developing cancer.  When we eat breakfast, we usually consume breakfast cereals, nutrition bars, bread and white rice that are fortified with folic acid, the synthetic form of the B vitamin folate.

We can easily consume too much folic acid because it is all around us.  It is slipped into cereals, bread, energy bars and supplements that one-third of us take regularly.

Although folic acid has been thought to help prevent colon cancer, research suggests that high doses of folic acid may actually promote polyp growth.  The risk experts worry about the most regarding too much consumption of foods fortified with folic acid is the…

A recent study suggests that delicious but fatty foods may be addictive.  A new study in rats suggests that high-fat, high calorie foods affect the brain in much the same way as cocaine and heroin.  When rats consume fatty foods in great quantities, it leads to compulsive eating habits that resemble drug addiction.

According to an associate professor from the Scripps Research Institute, doing drugs like cocaine and eating too much junk food both gradually overload the so-called pleasure centers in the brain.  They suggest that overeating is more than just will power; there is a part in the brain that activated and drives people to overeat at some subconscious level.

The…