Why men should eat chocolate too

 Move over women! It now looks like you aren’t the only ones who should be eating dark chocolate.

 Previous research has confirmed chocolate's vascular protective benefit for women. But a new study has found it confers benefits for men as well, as I had suggested it would.

This heart-helper can help your joints too

 Magnesium is a vital mineral for the prevention of heart disease, high blood pressure, insomnia, and a host of other problems. Nothing new there. But here’s something surprising. A new study shows that it also helps to protect your knees from arthritis.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina X-rayed the knees of 2,112 men and women. They found an amazing number of them, 36.7%, had X-ray evidence of osteoarthritis. Then they looked at how much magnesium they were getting in their diets. It turns out that those who were getting the least amount of magnesium were more than twice as likely to have arthritis in their knees.

Does this conventional cancer treatment cause cancer?

 I sincerely hope you never develop a life-threatening cancer. But if you do, there’s one thing you need to be aware of – your oncologist. It’s quite possible one of the treatments he recommends for you could actually CAUSE cancer.

That’s right! New evidence suggests that chemotherapy is a major carcinogen.