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Can chocolate affect your sex life?

From the time the first cocoa beans were harvested by the Mayans, there has been the belief that chocolate has a euphoric impact on the body's senses. The conquistadores saw the Emperor Montezuma of the Aztecs consuming a large quantity of cocoa in the form of a beverage called chocolatl before entering his harem. The invading Spaniards spread the Emperor's belief that cocoa was an aphrodisiac and brought it to Europe. Since then chocolate has been a food of love and recently scientists have begun researching what effects chocolate actually has on us and why. (click here to read the full article)

A Chocolate Fountain of Youth?

We humans are strange indeed. People spend so much energy in an attempt to look and feel younger, that they so often miss the fact that they are using so much precious time doing so. Could the answer to retaining youth be right under our very noses, could something as well known as chocolate be the answer? (click here to read the full article)

Chocolate at Valentines - the way to a womans heart? 

Well we all know that Valentines Day is the day of lovers and a day for giving gifts to those you care about but why is chocolate still the most popular gift given on Valentines Day? Why is chocolate is so closely associated with romance? It seems it has more to do with science than tradition… (click here to read the full article)