
About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments — usually drugs or vitamins that won’t really help their condition.
And many of these doctors are not honest with their patients about what they are doing, the survey found.

According to a recent study done in Europe, we should be eating dark chocolate!
To be exact, we should be eating 6.7 grams of dark chocolate per day. Dark chocolate is a great example of where less is more, eating more that 6.7 grams a day can and the beneficial effects will diminish and even disappear.
Eating dark chocolate reduces the risk of of cardiovascular disease by one-third in women and one-fourth in men because it reduces the risk of chronic inflammation which can lead to a cardiovascular arrest.
The bad news for milk chocolate lovers is that the findings only apply to dark chocolate. Milk chocolate does not have the same effect, since the milk added to milk chocolate interferes with your body’s ability to absorb the beneficial antioxidants in the chocolate.