Week 4: A little dark chocolate can help the heart
Connellsville Daily Courier
Hearts, flowers and chocolate, all Valentine's Day staples, but they take on deeper meanings within the Highlands Health Challenge. The challenge focuses on living healthier and achieving heart health as a labor of love for myself and for others.

Love Your Valentine? Give Healthy Chocolates
Patch.com
Nutrition author explains which chocolates are richest in anti-oxidants; fruit and nut gifts also help keep valentines' hearts healthy so they can love you longer. By Pam DeFiglio Planning to buy one of those heart-shaped boxes of candy for Valentines ...

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Show Your Sweetheart Some Love with Ultra-Romantic Desserts
Patch.com
This ultra-romantic "Health Starts Here" chocolate pudding, presented by Whole Foods, features bananas and avacado. Mangos can be substituted for the bananas, say health experts. Courtesy Whole Foods With Valentine's Day right around the corner, ...

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New chocolate bar boasts anti-aging and heart health
Summit Daily News
By Kimberly Nicoletti It may just be the perfect Valentine's Day gift: It's cheap, it's chocolate, and it boasts anti-aging and healthy heart benefits. The new WineTime Bar not only tastes luxuriously delicious, but it's also good for you, ...

Take a look inside Friday's paper: The many loves of Glee's Jane Lynch
Suburban Life Publications
By Anonymous Inside Friday's paper and USA Weekend includes Glee's Jane Lynch, 23 ways to celebrate Valentine's Day and a healthy chocolate truffle recipe. Also, get some savvy style tips from Isaac Mizrahi. Check it out in this USA Weekend insert in ...

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Chocolate: the new medical food?
USA TODAY
By Keith Ayoob, USA TODAY A scientific review of research looking at the effects of chocolate and cocoa on cardiovascular health, has been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, just in time for Valentine's Day.
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3 Healthy chocolate dessert recipes
SheKnows.com
It's true: A bite of dark chocolate a day is good for your heart. But who can -- or wants to -- stop at a bite? To give you delectable nibble after nibble of the rich, delicious treat, here are three healthy chocolate dessert recipes that are big on ...

Chocolate is a valentine for heart and cholesterol
Denver Post
Compounds in cocoa beans — called alkaloids, theobromines and antioxidant flavonoids — are responsible for chocolate's health benefits. These heart-healthy compounds are the same ones found in red wine, grape juice and tea, for example.
Chocolate for Valentine's Day? Sure, in moderationAtlanta Journal Constitution
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Easy, healthy chocolate recipes
Gettysburg Times
HanoverHospital.org) helps you spread the love with Valentine's Day recipes for rich chocolate desserts and much more by clicking on the Health eCooking tab. Easy chocolate recipes include appetizers, entrees and, of course, decadent chocolate desserts ...

No More Winter Blues: Healthy Chocolate & Eco-Friendly Snow & Ice Removal
Care2.com
Green Diva Lisa did a mouth-watering segment on why we should eat dark chocolate (fair trade please!) or give it to a special someone we love for Valentine's Day. Some surprising reasons to consider the healthy attributes of chocolate!