New research suggests that the components of cocoa make you more content. And that leads to creativity. Open up and say: Yeah!
Stop for a minute and savor cocoa's accomplishments: battler of stroke, diabetes, and heart disease; booster of blood flow; and now, research suggests, calmer of the mind.
While there are many excellent qualities to chocolate, research at an Austrailian university shows that the polyphenols in chocolate can make people feel more calm and contended.
So what else can the lovely stuff do?