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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.

  A very strong EL Nino thru out the coming winter is as good as a Shure bet. So get ready for not only the unusual weather a strong EL Nino brings but the likely hood of higher coffee and chocolate prices.  Coffee is only recently recover from disease problems of 2014. So the just the prediction of a strong EL Nino alone is enough to get markets on edge and leaning to a price increase.   It is the ever increasing demand for chocolate that is bring higher prices. With the recent "chocolate is good for your health"  press is perhaps the largest factor on chocolates increasing demand. With the additional threat of the bad growing conditions an EL Nino brings look for you dark chocolate fix to start getting a little more expensive.  

     In New Hampshire bear hunters had their say on Wednesday April  8, 2015 concerning a proposal to ban the use of chocolate to lure bears. Last fall of four Bears  were found to have died as a result of being poisoned by cocoa-based sweets, (chocolate). The hunters, delivered the message that the proposed ban was not needed to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission in Concord .   If approved, the measure would prohibit the use of all "chocolate and cocoa derivatives" as bait for black bears starting in September 2015 and runs through November2015. The ban was proposed is a result of the fatal poisoning of two female bears and two cubs in September 2014. They were found dead a short distance from  a baiting site that had been stocked with nearly a hundred pounds of baking chocolate. State lab tests determined the bears died from an overdose of theobromine, a...

Chocolate sales in China are expected to grow but over 50 percent in the next four to five years, and people in the Asia-Pacific region are eating nearly double the amount of chocolate as ten years ago.    Europe’s huge consumption of chocolate of all kinds is straining growers ability to produce enough coco. Adding to the problem are two other issues, disease and bad weather. Disease has wiped out the trees in Costa Rica, the bad weather is lowering rainfall in West Africa. The new found preference for dark chocolate isn’t making it any easier on the world’s supply, either. While the average chocolate bar contains about 10 percent cocoa, dark chocolate contains up to 70 percent.coco.  Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/ana-veciana-suarez/article11930324.html#storylink=cpy