Perhaps there is some justice in the world....

Dark Chocolate Helps Blood Flow, Scientists Find

MUNICH (Reuters) - Good news for chocoholics -- eating dark chocolate improves healthy blood flow, according to research published on Sunday.

Greek scientists said they had demonstrated for the first time how chocolate improved the function of blood vessels, allowing them to dilate, thereby preventing the formation of potentially damaging clots.

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Does this explain hereditary criminals?

Revenge Is Indeed Sweet, Study Finds

Dirty Harry had it right: Brain scans show revenge really might make your day. Planning revenge sparks enough satisfaction to motivate getting even and the amount of satisfaction actually predicts who will go to greater lengths to do so, report Swiss researchers who monitored people's brain activity during an elaborate game of double-cross.
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Reminded of an old favorite....

This has been around at least since my youth, but I don't Google an attribution.... The point is at the last. Whenever things aren't going quite the way I want (and I mean in a BIG way) I try to remember this, and give myself some slack and a small reward for all that does get accomplished, etc.

Because thirst is a dangerous thing.

***
Travel Light in Life
take only what you need
*
a loving family
*
good friends
*
simple pleasures
*
someone to love
and someone to love you
*
enough to eat,
enough to wear,
and a little more than
enough to drink,
for thirst
is a dangerous thing.

!#$%@^&!

Do you know that there were at least a half dozen brands of pickles at the grocery tonight, and ALL of them except Claussen Garlic Dill slices had corn syrup in them?

And who do you think is not allowed to have corn syrup?

ARGGHH!

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Weakening here about the alternative treatment for LBb. I know it has worked wonders for a lot of people--and it is helping me, but at about the same level as all my being REALLY careful about nutrition, etc. has done.

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