Many people may not know it, but there are actually numerous health benefits of chocolate. The real, unadulterated form of chocolate, derived from the Theobroma cacao tree, is a heaven-sent super food that can keep us healthy even as we indulge in its delectable taste. Many overly processed chocolates are full of refined sugar and saturated fatty acids, but the real stuff is packed full of plant derived flavanols, full of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory constituents and health-boosting ingredients that do all sorts of amazing things for our bodies and minds.

Take for example, the following 10 benefits to heart:

• In a 9-year study conducted by the Swedes, it was found that people who consumed chocolate just 1 to 3 times per month had a 26% lower risk of developing heart failure. If you normally give your sweetheart chocolate, consider making it dark chocolate to provide an extra bit of love to the heart muscle.

By Dr. Edward Group
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

The CDC estimates around 5.3 million Americans are living with some form of Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is expected to double by 2050.^[1] Dementia, a generalized term used to describe neurodegeneration, is a disabling issue that have definitive roots in lifestyle and nutritional habits. While genetics may play a role in brain health, it’s lifestyle factors that are the driving force behind the progression of hereditary variables. A recent study is suggesting pomegranate, a red deciduous fruit rich in polyphenols, may be a potent protector against mental degeneration.

The Wonder Power of Pomegranate

By Irwin Ozborne
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”

As a child, I remember walking in my grandmother’s backyard and one day noticed a litter of kittens near her garage in the alleyway. They were hissing, crying, and yelping with the hair sticking up on their backs as their frames were so thin you could see their skeletons.

“I want to pet them,” I told my grandmother.

“Oh no. They are not ready for that,” she insisted, “Someone must have dropped them off and they need food and water first.”

“Why not?” I asked, “Are they bad kittens?”

“Of course not, “ she laughed, “there is no such thing as bad or evil. There is only misguided love. These kittens were abandoned and they just need love. But they are also starving so we need to first feed them so they can refill what is missing.”

A group of architecture students living in Estonia decided to amplify the true sounds of nature by constructing giant megaphones and placing them in the wilderness. The megaphones are placed at the required distance and angles so that the sound will feed from all three directions .

The author of the idea is an interior architecture student Birgit Õigus who aimed to blend contemporary architectural space and wilderness. Privately funded, these megaphones are accessible for hikers and nature lovers for free.

God said:

You do know that there is more to you than you can at present picture or acknowledge. At the same time, there are moments when you do get a glimpse of yourself as a special Being.

I am not speaking of egocentric moments or hours.

I am speaking of times when, to your delight and surprise, your heart may happily skip a beat. There is no proof, yet on occasion, you have an awareness that you have been somehow part of Greatness. You may not quite catch how or what or where, yet you sense you are now back from a remarkable journey, as if you had been absent from Earth even for a split second.

Sometimes you have a hint of something not consciously known. Of course, you are greater than you appear. In Truth, there is no ordinary when it comes to you. You have believed in the fullness of the illusion of ordinariness when there is only the extraordinary.

I am certainly not making this up. Nor are you. You are not inflating yourself. This is not an ego-inflation trip. You may even wonder at your daring to sanction yourself to what cannot be explained. Your perception may be foggy, yet you are perceiving nevertheless.

There is nothing in the world that is impossible to happen. No matter how you put yourself down, there is also nothing in the world that you cannot do. Every human being is more than simply human. You are also suprahuman. You may not have superman muscle, yet you are super just the same. C’mon, you are more than a little person running around harried on Earth.

HJ: You are unlimited. Anything you can dream can be created or achieved. However, you are SO powerful that whatever you believe your limits to be, become real. Therefore your perceived limits are just that. Perceptions and nothing else and they can be dissolved just as easily as they were formed.

– Truth

Think big
By Tom Murcko

“The greater danger lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

Internal and external forces conspire to make us think small. Fear of failure. Fear of social disapproval. Lack of confidence, imagination, inspiration. A world filled with meandering, half-lived lives that shape our beliefs about what life can be. Colleagues, friends and family who discourage our boldness because it makes them look like cowards and failures, or because they don’t want us to change. An environment of abundant distractions where the trivial outnumber and steal our attention away from the significant. Institutions that steer us toward the frivolous and the trifling because big thinking threatens to disrupt and disempower them.

If you haven’t heard about the recent innovations in 3-D printing technologies then it is likely that you have been living under a rock. While the initial idea and first prototypes of 3-D printers were created back in 1984, only just recently have they become standardized and widely available to the public. The basic premise of 3-D printing is called Additive Manufacturing (AM), which is the process of adding layer after layer of material, typically done by robotics and computers, to create 3-D objects.

There are several different 3-D printing processes that have been developed since the late 1970s. They were typically large, expensive, and very limited in what they could produce, but nowadays you can pick up a small 3-D printer that will fit in your home for about $350-$400, with various models and designs fetching a price tag up to $44,000+.

A Chinese company called WinSun, which is owned by designer Ma Yihe, has successfully created ten full-sized, detached single-story houses in one day.  This was in response to the growing housing crisis, as well as the increasing demand for economical and sustainably-produced living spaces.

Source: www.theantimedia.org | Original Post Date: September 28, 2015–

Los Angeles, CA — The United States government deliberately hid “the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history,” according to experts and an in-depth investigation by NBC4 Southern California. Whistleblowers have also come forward to expose the little-known catastrophe, which occurred north of Los Angeles in 1959 and leaked over 300 times the allowable amount of radiation into surrounding neighborhoods. That contamination is now linked to up to a 60% increase in cancer in the area, but the government still refuses to acknowledge its colossal mistake.

The ongoing tragedy was driven by America’s darkest demons, from dogmatic militarism to aggressive corporatism, and ongoing government and corporate efforts to cover-up the disaster are nothing short of staggering.