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The University of East Anglia is about to begin a study on the effect of chocolate in reducing heart disease in women with type 2 diabetes. 150 women will be needed to eat chocolate daily for a whole year.

Now don’t go out a start buying up chocolate bars just yet because the chocolate off the shelf has all the goodness processed out of it. A Belgian chocolatier has developed a flavanoid rich chocolate for the study and 27 grams will be eaten daily.

Women that have been through menopause will be selected to eat the chocolate daily and still carry on with their cholesterol lowering medication. The chocolate will have added soy compounds as well. .
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health groups told Congress on Wednesday that sex abstinence education programs are a failure. They have not impacted STD rates, pregnancy rates, or changed the age that sex begins.

Experts from groups including the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists presented data to a House panel.

Despite spending $1.3Bn in federal funds on these programs since the late 90s, statistics show that 25% of American teens have an STD. 30% of American girls become pregnant before the age of 20. Critics blame the lack of comprehensive sex education.
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