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Chocolate. Today's fountain of youth. Science sayes so.

1. Chocolate Improves Cognitive Performance     A report in the Appetite journal noted that chocolate consumption was associated with cognitive performance regardless of other dietary habits. 2. It’s Good for the Heart     Faseb journal , scientists recognized that eating dark chocolate is good for the heart and it can play a good part in battling atherosclerosis, a disease associated with plaque buildups inside the arteries. 3. Reduces Chances of Stroke   Daily chocolate consumption was also linked to a lower risk of stroke, reported in the British Journal of Nutrition last year. Coffee and chocolate are the way to living forever.

Coffee the weapon of choice for many

  Police reported the arrests of two juvenile females late Friday afternoon in a case in which three people threw hot coffee in the faces of employees at a Wawa store in Upper Darby. Woman throws hot coffee in employee's face .  Homeless man throws coffee at Muslim woman, calls her 'terrorist' in Manhattan Dunkin’ Donuts    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/homeless-man-throws-coffee-muslim-woman-nyc-dunkin-donuts-article-1.2915553     Trial set for mom accused of putting tot's arm in hot coffee . http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/01/04/trial-set-mom-accused-putting-tots-arm-in-hot-coffee-council-bluffs-iowa/96152574/  

Your coffee your climate.

     Coffee varieties have adapted to specific climate zones, a temperature rise of even half a degree can make a big difference. A long-term increase in the number of extreme and unseasonal rainfall events has contributed to lower crop yields that are threatening the livelihood of coffee growers. For example, between 2002 and 2011, Indian coffee production declined by nearly 30 percent.   Additionally, warming has expanded the habitat and thus the range and damage of the coffee berry borer , a grazing predator of coffee plants. This pest is placing additional stresses on all coffee crops, as is coffee rust , a devastating fungus that previously did not survive the cool mountain weather. Costa Rica, India, and Ethiopia , three of the top fifteen coffee-producing nations in the world, have all seen a dramatic decline in yields.  There is no single solution to climate change, but there are technologies and approaches available now that can reduce global warming emissions by at leas