A recent study indicates that dark chocolate may help ease emotional stress. Most people who love chocolate are aware of this already and there is more than just emotional stress relief that comes from a bite or two of dark chocolate -- there is growing scientific evidence that antioxidants and other beneficial substances in dark chocolate may reduce risk factors for heart disease and other physical conditions.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Snickers, Airheads or Blow Pops. Here's a list of the Best Halloween Candy for kids and adults. Which houses give Hershey Bars, Reese's PB Cups or Kit Kats? Hershey's National Survey Results tell all.

National Chocolate Day is October 28 and a perfect day to celebrate the many health benefits of chocolate. While chocolate is primarily eaten for pleasure, there are potential health benefits of eating chocolate.

Eating chocolate can reduce a heart attack survivors' risk of dying accoprding to a just-published study.

Chocolate lovers there's reason to celebrate. This Friday, August 7, the Mars chocolate company will give away 250,000 free chocolate bars. But, you'll have to act fast.

Mars (yes, the candy makers) feels that Americans are looking for reasons to smile. Undoubtedly true, in this recession, they are looking to stimulate your taste buds with what they are calling the Mars Real Chocolate Relief Act (http://www.realchocolate.com). This promotion runs from now until September.

Jeremy Laurance writes in the Independent: "Not even Willy Wonka, Roald Dahl's eccentric chocolate-maker, could have dreamt that his scrumptious products might one day offer the world a panacea.

In 2007, researcher David Lewis of The Mind Lab knew that chocolate kindled natural anti-depressants in the brain such as serotonin, but was stunned to find that people registered greater brain activity and higher heart rate from eating chocolate than passionate kissing.

Over the past ten years, dark chocolate and cocoa have become recognized through numerous studies for flavanol antioxidant benefits. In a study published this month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists from The Hershey Company and Brunswick Laboratories of Norton, MA report on the levels of antioxidants in selected cocoa powders and the effect of processing on the antioxidant levels.

The results of a University of Illinois study have demonstrated an effective way to lower cholesterol levels – by eating chocolate bars.

At first sight chocolate has nothing to do with healthy heart, low blood pressure and low levels of cholesterol, but a dream comes true.

The earliest known use of cacao––the source of our modern day chocolate––has been pushed back more than 500 years, to somewhere between 1400 and 1100 B.C.E., thanks to new chemical analyses of residues extracted from pottery excavated at an archaeological site at Puerto Escondido in Honduras