There may well be another important reason for giving your sweetheart chocolate for Valentine’s Day besides the traditional romantic one: The “chocolate cure” for emotional stress is now getting new support from a clinical trial published online in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research. It found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark [...]

A special type of antidepressant - a MAO inhibitor - can blunt and even reverse the muscle enlargement and weakened pumping function associated with heart failure, according to a team of Johns Hopkins and other researchers working with an animal model of heart failure.
In a report to be published in the January 8, 2010 edition [...]

The “chocolate cure” for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published online in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research. It found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate per day (40 grams per day) for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people feeling [...]

CFAH.org - Many U.S. children face a terrible burden of stressors such as emotional trauma in childhood that can harm the development of their brains and nervous systems. These stressors can lead to health problems and diseases throughout their lives, ultimately causing some to die prematurely, according to the lead author of a new study.
David [...]

CFAH.org - Child abuse has had a known association with increased risk for virtually all types of psychological and psychiatric problems — but a new evidence review suggests that it raises the risk of physical illness later in life just as much.
The review analyzed data from 24 studies comprising 48,801 adults who had been victims [...]

Adelaide.edu.au - Doctors should pay more attention to the link between common mental illness such as depression and obesity in patients because the two health problems are closely linked, according to researchers at the University of Adelaide.
In an editorial published October 7, 2009 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the Adelaide researchers add support to [...]