Breaking News: Chocolate is Good For You

It’s many people’s favorite pleasure - but before you go away, taking a bite out of chocolate and feeling guilty, latest research has revealed that eating chocolate is good for you.

Scientists have made a satisfying discovery, saying that eating chocolate in reasonable amounts, makes you feel emotionally better and therefore enhances the smooth running of the body’s natural endorphins. Even protecting you against heart disease!

Chocolate makes you live longer

Researchers at Harvard University in the U.S. studied 8,000 men for 65 years and found that those who ate modest amounts of chocolate up to three times a month, lived almost a year longer than those who didn’t eat any.

They concluded that this is likely to be due to the fact that cocoa contains antioxidants called polyphenols, also found in red wine, which prevent the oxidation of harmful cholesterol.

Did you know that antioxidants are also known to protects us against cancer?

Chocolate is good for stress

This is thought to be because it contains valeric acid, which is a relaxant and tranquilizer.

lso, the sugar in chocolate may reduce stress - sugar has been shown to have a calming and pain-relieving effect on babies and animals because sweet tastes activate the opiate-like substances in our brain.

Chocolate does not make you put on weight

You can’t blame any single food on weight gain. So long as you don’t eat more calories than you burn off, you won’t get fat says nutritionists.

Chocolate can make you more alert
It contains a stimulant called theobromine, a caffeine-like substance that is thought to make us more alert.

But the bromine doesn’t have the side-effect of giving us the jitters, like caffeine, and chocolate contains only minor amounts of caffeine - a mug of coffee has about 85mg compared with just 1mg in three squares of chocolate.

 

Let's Talk About Puppies

We all love puppies, if you don't... what's wrong with you?

A puppy is a juvenile dog, some can weigh 1–3 lb, while larger ones can weigh up to 15–23 lb. All healthy puppies grow a vast majority bigger after birth. 

Here are 10 facts about puppies that you may not have known - 

1. A puppy is born - There are approximately 6.2 million puppies born in the U.S. and UK every year. In comparison to only 4 million babies born  per year, you can give each newborn baby at least one puppy as a birthday gift!

2.  Sensory - Just like us human beings, when puppies are first born, they are without teeth. However, they can't hear, see or smell either. Puppies do not open their eyes or begin to hear until they're 9 to 12 days old. Plus they can't smell until three weeks post birth. Until then, it's a must for the mini-puppies to stay close to their mother and their siblings to eat and grow into a healthy dog. 

3. Sleeping - Not much differs between babies and puppies when it comes to sleeping habits. The average newborn sleeps 16 hours in a 24 hour time period, whereas puppies get around 14 hours of sleep only. 

4. Lifestyle - When a puppy is born, 90% of their life is spent sleeping while the other 10 percent is spent eating.Since a lot of important development and growth happens for the pup during this time, it is important that they get their rest.

5. Sniffing - At 3 weeks old, puppies not only develop a keen sense of smell, but they're also pretty amazing sniffers. The percentage devoted to sniffing smells in a puppy's brain is actually 40 percent larger than humans. Plus they can smell things over a 1,000 times better than the average human.

6. Feeding - When a puppy is small, he needs to eat five small portions of food a day. Since he wasn't born to nurse, you will need to teach him the proper portion control to avoid gorging his little tummy. As he gets older, he can survive on one to two larger feedings per day.

7. Walking - Puppies grow pretty fast and it takes them a bit of time to get used to their body. Just like when a human is trying to walk, puppies can be a bit clumsy. A bit more common in larger breeds due to their long legs and big paws, puppies are quite the clumsy creatures when they trot alongside you.

8. Social skills - Puppies are in the womb and born with a litter. When they are left alone, they get lonely. Some chase their tails and some look for trouble. When your little puppy is young, make sure to spend a lot of time with the little guy and put him in sociable situations to ease his transition into being a pet.

9. Chewing - Just like babies, puppies teeth grow when they are chewing. Needing to exercise their new chompers, a lot of puppies will chew anything in site. Don't discipline for chewing, just train them on what's okay to chew and what's not.

10. All grown up - Even though he may not act like it, a 1-year-old puppy is considered an adult! This is the equivalent to a human at 15 years of age. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy 
http://puppies.co.uk/
http://www.27bslash6.com/puppies.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Raising-Puppies