41% Women Says that Chocolate is Better than Sex

Reuters said that among women, 36 percent considered chocolate as comforting and 41 percent said it brought them more pleasure than sex. Women are a bunch of mystery, aren't they? Men, who were in majority felt that nothing better than sex wouldn't understand it.
Studies show that a vast majority of people see chocolate -- mainly produced by international giants such as Swiss-based Nestle, Britain's Cadbury or U.S. Kraft Foods -- as one of their most regular sources of pleasure.
Research has demonstrated that when a person eats chocolate, the body releases dopamine, a chemical in the brain's reward centers that sends signals of pleasure.
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Benefits of Walking : a Study

Adding my post about walking planning for health, and an idea of walking to work, comparing running to walking, now I want to add some benefits of walking.
As a matter of face, University of Copenhagen researchers asked 10 volunteers to reduce their steps from an average of 10,500 per day to 1,300 (10,000, or roughly 5 miles, is considered ideal. The participants’ belly-fat levels increased by 7 percent after just two weeks of cutting back. Study authors say that skipping the gym doesn’t cause obesity; being sedentary is the real issue. “
It is nice to know that you can get the benefits of exercise by keeping physically busy and just walking. So next time take the stairs instead of the elevator or park your car a little further away and walk-the benefits really do add up.
So, what do you wait for. Start today. Or perhaps you need to read that exercise is one important element for happy life?
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Eat Grapes: It may lower your blood pressure

Reuters released a report about a findings, published in the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, that grapes might help people with high blood pressure. It was a sponsored research by California grapes producers. tested to some lab rats.

"The inevitable downhill sequence to hypertension and heart failure was changed by the addition of grape powder to a high-salt diet," Dr. Steven Bolling, the head of University of Michigan lab. He thought that flavonoids, beneficial chemicals found in grapes, green tea, cocoa and tomatoes, could be having an effect on blood pressure. Flavonoids have been shown in other studies to have heart-health benefits.

The California Table Grape Commission provided financial support for the study and supplied the grape powder. Other sponsors included the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, can lead to heart attack, heart failure, stroke and kidney failure.
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