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newslineCAMPUSUHPD sponsors online lost and found system
UH Department of Public Safety off ers the option of fi ling a
Lost and Found report on the UHDPS website.
Students fi ling a claim will need to give their name, contact
information and a description of the lost item. Unclaimed items
are donated to charitable organizations or disposed of after 60
days. Students are encouraged to bring in any found items to the
UHDPS property claim.
“We’re trying to reach out to other people to where they
understand that when they fi nd an item, what to do with it,
and what our policy and procedures are,” Stephanie Carpenter,
UHDPS offi ce assistant, said.
Items accepted at the lost and found include electronics, wal-
lets, jewelry and identifi cation cards.
The property claim is located at the UHDPS building on 3869
Wheeler avenue. Students can also fi le a lost claim report online
at www.uh.edu/police/lost_and_found.html.
Louis Casiano /The Daily Cougar
CAMPUSCelebration of life, tomorrow for Elizabeth Rockwell
There will be a Celebration of Life in honor of the late Eliza-
beth D. Rockwell at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow on the second fl oor of
the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library.
Members of Rockwell’s family will be in attendance, and the
event will feature a number of speakers, including UH President
Renu Khator.
For more information, contact Mike Emery at 713-743-8186.
Julian Jimenez/ The Daily Cougar
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EVENTSGerman Club Meeting- The German Club is meeting for
the fi rst time today from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the UC Baltic
Room. Anyone interested in German culture is invited to
come.
Trio GaLaQ The Moores School of Music is hosting a night
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The ten-week long RecycleMania event will kick off with a pep rally at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at the UC Satellite.
“RecycleMania is a friendly competition between uni-versities to promote waste reduction activities,” Billy Garner, university services program coordinator, said. “(Schools
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A local breast cancer organization is offering 25 mammogram screenings from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the UH Student Health Center, by appoint-ment only.
The on-site mobile screenings are offered to stu-dents, faculty and staff by The Rose, Houston’s leading non-profit breast cancer organization.
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The sound of basketballs hitting the floor was a bit more faint Tuesday morning at the Campus Recreation and Well-ness Center as the 2011 Texas Job Fair and its 125 employers filled the floor in search of potential job and internship candidates.
The fair, an annual event sponsored by the Houston Area Consortium of Career Centers, is in its seventh year and boasts a diverse range of employers and organizations such as: General Electric, Citi-zen Schools, Disney, Verizon, HACU National Internship
Program, Central Intel l i-gence Agency and Enterprise Holdings.
“Each year has been great. Students are given access to explore employers and careers they might not have consid-ered before,” Jevel Showers, president elect of HACCC, said. “This year we anticipate exceeding last year’s record attendance of 1285 students.”
Even though not all stu-dents receive a job or intern-ship from the fair, experiences such as shaking hands and having conversations, can be valuable in their future job searches.
Aside from an education, businesses seek candidates with experience and confi-dence, according to Beth All-day of Enterprise Holdings.
“Employers want employees
who are enthusiastic and show a genuine interest in the com-pany,” Malika Riley, a recruiter with The Lubrizol Corporation, said.
Candidates walked around the basketball courts and indoor soccer field of the
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A candlelight vigil was held yesterday for Neal Patel, who died at 20 years old on Jan 28. Patel enjoyed basketball, football,
music and being with his friends. He was a brother of Delta Epsilon Psi. A fellow brother, nursing junior Navid Naser, said the fraternity wanted to host the vigil to give people an opportunity to say goodbye. “There are a lot of people who knew him,” Naser said. “He is a part of our family.”| Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar
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The seventh annual career fair helped students meet 125 hiring employers for jobs and internships. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/The Daily Cougar
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FEATURED COMMENTSRe: The war on terror is a war of ideolo-gies
Radical Islam did not spawn ter-rorism. Wikipedia mentions over 100 defi nitions of Terrorism, but this one fi ts the bill: “Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.” It is religion-neutral, and just because in recent years radical Islamists with no value for human life have taken to killing people in mass acts of murder does not mean that they are
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The funny thing is, Murderers are let out of prison when there isn’t space left. You have to make room for those evil dangerous Marijuana smokers you know.
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When you wake up the morning, let’s face it…it’s not the prettiest thing in the world. You probably have a little dry saliva on the side of your face, the crust in your eyes and the worst morning breath. It takes you about 15-60 minutes getting your look together depending on your gender. (Ahem, girls live in the restroom.)
We do live in a superfi cial kind of world and let’s not lie to ourselves, looks are important to everybody; but when does the importance of how you look become too much? You probably have friends that go overboard about the subject and go on about how they do all these tricks to look better in the public eye.
Sit there and ask yourself, “How much do I care about my appear-ance?” It’s either you care, you kind of care, or you just don’t give a crap about what people think about you. Listen to how much you talk about your appearance but pay attention to see if it goes into that zone where you literally annoy everyone or try shoving your “appearance” beliefs down somebody else’s throat. I’ve named those people the “super vain” since they might trigger those subconscious needs to look “perfect” that you might not be aware of and then you go down this weird road. They’re persistent but don’t fall for their words, a majority of these “super vain” people don’t follow what they preach....
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Recreation Center, where recruit-ers from around the country set up informational booths to answer questions and review resumes.
“Bringing resumes for poten-tial employers to critique and offer suggestions is a service in its own,” Mike Bubeck, a graduate of Houston Baptist University said. “Overall, I was pleased with the fair. There were lots of great companies and online resources provided.”
At the end of the event, attend-ees were asked to fill out an evalu-ation and given a free set of cards containing tips, suggestions and brainstorming ideas for their interviews.
For students who missed this year’s fair, Employer Relations
Coordinator Jessica Campbell, of University Career Services-Univer-sity of Houston, suggests students take advantage of the full range of job search assistance, includ-ing workshops, resume writing assistance, career counseling, job postings and on-campus interviews
provided by the USC. Find more details at www.career.
uh.edu.The 2012 Texas Job Fair will be
held in March 2012 at the Univer-sity of St. Thomas.
FAIRcontinued from page 1
are) ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita or have the highest recycling rate.”
Assistant Vice President for
University Services Emily Messa will introduce RecycleMania by discussing UH’s previous role in the competition and this year’s expectations.
UH Go Green will also announce the winner of the Green UH T-shirt competition, provide instructions on how to get involved and distribute information on RecycleMania events.
There are 630 schools registered to participate, and the competition is split
into two divisions — the competition division and the benchmark division, according to Garner.
“UH will participate in the compe-tition division with other Texas univer-sities such as University of Texas, Texas A&M and Rice,” Garner said.
UH won first place in Texas in actual weight recyclables and won seventh in the nation in overall waste minimization last year.
Students and faculty are encour-aged to join the campus-wide compe-tition to increase recycling numbers.
Four or more students or staff members make up a group, and groups can sign up at http://www.uh.edu/af/recyclemania/competition.htm.
“Every year, we’ve seen the amount of recycling go up and can’t wait for another exciting year that stands above all the rest,” Jonas Chin, university
services constituent relations coor-dinator, said. “With everyone par-ticipating from the UH community, we’re confi dent we can meet the goals of defending the Texas RecycleMania actual weight recycling title and raising the numbers compared to last year. We can’t wait and [are] glad RecycleMania is here!”
RECYCLEcontinued from page 1
“The earlier you are able to detect breast cancer, the higher the chance of survival,” Laura Moore, chief nurse at the University Health Center, said.
Early detection is a main focus of The Rose. With two mobile mam-mography vans at their disposal, they are paving the way to make early detection even easier for those who cannot find the time to get to the doctor for a traditional screening.
“The Rose is good for the com-munity,” said Moore. “They offer convenient, more cost-effective screenings to women and give back to the cause.”
Dedicated to breast cancer research, The Rose donates a por-tion of the proceeds for continued breast cancer research.
The Rose provides an alternative to screenings for women who have hectic lifestyles and are regularly on the go.
The Rose has been provid-ing mammogram screenings and diagnostic services for women in the Houston area since 1986, and introduced the first mobile screen-ings in 2006.
Women eligible for the mobile screening must be at least 35 years old, not experiencing symptoms or problems and not have been diag-nosed with breast cancer in the past two years or pregnant. Women with implants are not eligible.
A screening costs about $100. The Rose does accept most insur-ance plans, but recommends clients contact their insurance companies to see if a referral is needed.
For questions about insurance plans or rates, please contact the billing department at The Rose, 281-484-4708.
Uninsured women are eligible and should contact The Rose to find out if they qualify for a free mammogram at reduced rates or to arrange a payment plan.
To schedule an appointment, call 713-743-5133.
The Health Center plans to increase the number of mobile screenings to once per quarter.
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STAFF EDITORIAL
T hrough the simple action of not recognizing the murder of a gay rights activist in Uganda at
Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast, the Washington D.C. based group known as the Family, which organizes the breakfast, showed the lengths it employs to distance the group from a case that has its fi nger-prints indelibly marked on it.
Uganda police informed the world of the murder of David Kato on Jan. 27. The news sparked a storm of criticism of the country and its treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
But people must remember when the undercur-rent of homophobia that had always plagued Uganda grew into a tidal wave.
In March, it will be almost two years since three American evangelical Christians associated with the Family traveled to Uganda to speak with the growing number of evangelical Christians in the country.
According to The New York Times, workshops led by the American evangelicals discussed “how to turn gay people straight, how gay men sodomized teenage boys and how ‘the gay movement is an evil institu-tion’ intended to ‘defeat the marriage-based society.’”
The article quotes Val Kalende, a president of a group of gay rights in Uganda, saying that Kato’s death is the result of those meetings.
“David’s death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by US evangelicals in 2009,” Kalende said. “The Ugandan government and the so-called US evangelicals must take responsibility for David’s blood.”
When a bill was introduced in the Legislative Assembly of Uganda that year calling for extreme punishment (including, for a time, the death penalty) for convicted homosexuals, media scrutiny turned to the American evangelicals and their role in the bill.
One after another, the evangelicals said they were not responsible, that their words did not matter.
The lack of words from the Family is bound to have the same effect as the words spoken almost two years ago. As much as the Family would like to wash its hands of the bloodshed, it will not be achieved through silence.
Dead rights activist scares the Family
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90.1 KPFT is Houston’s own “Radio for Peace,” a listener-sponsored station, is one of the city’s prized
possessions. KPFT is committed to alter-native viewpoints and hosts a number of important programs. The beauty of
KPFT is that it is a democratic community organization, where all listener-members and sponsors can have a say in the station’s actions and programming decisions.
So it came as a surprise to many loyal listeners when management unilater-ally approved a program hosted by the Israeli Consulate of the Southwest Region last December. Listener-members and sponsors were outraged: what kind of alternative radio allowed the offi cial arm of a government to spew propaganda on its airwaves? Worse, this was a govern-ment currently involved in acts of war,
crimes against humanity and apartheid. Members were also furious at the
undemocratic decision-making process. How had management come to this choice without the approval of the mem-bers, the Local Station Board or any other committee?
Although the program continues to be a shameless form of pro-Israel propaganda, the fact remains that the peace activists involved in the campaign against the Consulate program were dedicated to their mission. However, this was not enough for the activists, who decided to take their efforts one step further.
They agreed that if KPFT was indeed the people’s radio and stood for peace, then this sort of programming decision could not be allowed to happen again.
Listeners organized themselves and met throughout January to exchange ideas. They fi nally decided on launching a campaign to get KPFT to endorse the principles of the “Boycott, Divestment, and
Sanctions” movement. The BDS move-ment was launched by Palestinian civil society and asks people all over the world to endorse three basic principles: the right of return for all Palestinian refugees, the equal rights of all Israeli citizens, Arab or Jewish, and an end to Israeli occupation.
If KPFT endorses the BDS movement, then any viewpoint that does not agree with these basic principles would not be allowed a platform on air. These principles are in line with international human rights law and UN resolutions, so any voice that refuses to endorse them is clearly not a voice of peace and does not deserve a spot on KPFT.
After tainting its democratic credentials with this inexcusable decision, this is the least that the station and its management can do.
Dana El Kurd is a political science and economics junior and may be reached at [email protected].
N ear the end of January, “The New York Times” published an article entitled, “Send Huck Finn to Col-
lege,” where the author, Lorrie Moore, argued to do just that— send Huck Finn and all of his classic adventures to college.
The article partly came in response to NewSouth Books’ announcement about publishing “The Adven-tures of Huckleberry Finn” without the N-word. The announce-
ment prompted outrage from anti-censorship supporters but also got support from those who feel like the novel would be less uncomfortable for teenagers to read.
In the article, Moore suggests that instead of altering the book’s text, the novel should be designated as an advanced level book that is above for high school students.
“‘Huckleberry Finn’ is suited to a college course in which Twain’s obsession with the 19th-century theater of American huckster-ism can be discussed in the context of Jim’s particular story,” Moore said.
“An African-American 10th grader, in someone’s near-sighted attempt to get him newly appreciative of novels, does not ben-efi t by being taken back right then to a time when a young white boy slowly realizes, sort of, the humanity of a black man, realizes that that black man is more than chattel even if that black man is also full of illogic and stereotypical superstitions.”
The point Moore makes is biased and weak. Every child receiving an American public education comes across material that deals with the racist parts of our history. Deciding to not teach a book based upon the usage of one word is ridiculous.
The literature of Mark Twain is no more diffi cult to swallow than the lessons of the holocaust, or the many lessons that arose
from the civil rights era. If the N-word becomes too advanced for high school stu-dents then what happens to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird?”
We simply cannot hide from diffi cult issues for fear that teaching them would dis-courage students in high school. In today’s society it would be unrealistic to believe that racial slurs or lessons in civil rights are unheard of or diffi cult to talk about by the time most children become of high school age.
Stripping teenagers of these books and their corresponding literary and scholastic value does nothing to make racism disap-pear. In fact, not discussing it and avoiding the subject altogether only makes things worse.
The opinion desk may be reached at [email protected]. Camila Cossio contributed additional information to this article.
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Near wins turning into tough lossesJohn BrannenTHE DAILY COUGAR
The UH men’s basketball team has been choking away late leads, and now must attempt to dig themselves out of a fi ve-game losing streak.
Chances are head coach James Dickey is using the F word profusely — that is, fundamentals.
The Cougars tend to stay com-petitive with their offense, but are not doing enough to seal wins.
The largest margin of victory dur-ing the streak has been eight points.
In four of the fi ve losses, the Cougars could have won if they had made just a few more shots at the free-throw line, especially in some games: the 10 missed free throws in Tulsa’s 76-71 win, or 11 clanked free shots in Marshall’s one-point victory.
UH has been getting outhustled defensively, and allowing too many second-chance opportunities that are far too often converted into points.
The Cougars once looked like a contender, and were tied for fi rst place in a conference that is still ripe for the taking.
Now they have dropped to 11-11 overall, tying them for ninth in Con-ference USA at 3-6.
If UH wants any chance of quali-fying for the NCAA Tournament, they will need to clinch an automatic bid by making a repeat performance of last season’s four wins in four days at the C-USA Championship.
If effort and heart were measured as a statistic, UH would be near the top of the NCAA; unfortunately, no one likes moral victories.
The Cougars’ matchup Saturday with Tulane (12-9, 2-6) will go down to the wire, but if they focus on fun-damentals and avoid the momentary mental lapses, the streak will end.
Lance JaramilloTHE DAILY COUGAR
Darian Thibodeaux enjoys nothing better than to see fans at Hofheinz Pavilion excited for the home team.
The hard-nosed 6-3 guard from Dallas does his part to lift fans from their seats with his 3-point sniping and in-your-face defense. Thibo-deaux said he dedicates his efforts on the hardwood to three inspirations.
“My mother, my sister and my grandmother,” he said. “I do it for them every day. Whenever I feel like I can’t do it, I picture their faces.”
Getting personalThibodeaux targets anyone
not wearing a UH jersey both with his game and his mouth. He said frustrated players have punched him in the ribs before. But he gives the aggression back as well as he receives.
When UH hosted UCF on Jan. 8, Thibodeaux and UCF guard Marcus Jordan — son of NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan — had to be sepa-rated after a heated battle for a loose ball got too physical.
“We were both going for a loose ball,” Thibodeaux said. “He gave me a bump to the chest, so I kind of roughed him up on the ground and after that he didn’t want no parts of me.
“That was fun because I think I took him out of his game with that.”
Feisty defenderWhile most players take pride in
only scoring for their team, Thibo-deaux says he is as determined to clamp down on a player defensively to prevent the Cougars from being scored on. It comes as no surprise that Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest is who he patterns his defense after.
After adjusting to a new campus, coach and teammates, the transfer from Navarro Junior College said he wants to become more aggressive in driving the ball to the basket as a way to improve his plays and the team’s success.
Like most Cougars past and present, Thibodeaux only needs to look around at the banners hang-ing at Hofheinz to see inspiration to become a better player and teammate.
Three of the four retired numbers belonging to illustrious former play-ers like Clyde Drexler, Elvin Hayes and Hakeem Olajuwon.
“To play on the same fl oor those guys played on,” he said. “That’s a dream come true. As a kid you always want to play somewhere a legend played and to actually be on the fl oor and see their names every day —that makes you play harder too.”
Thibodeaux is the only player to start in all 22 games this season, averaging 35.4 minutes a game.
So far he has recorded 8.6 points, three rebounds and 2.4 assists per contest.
Thibodeaux and UH (11-11,
3-6 C-USA) look to rebound from a streak of fi ve consecutive losses when they host the Tulane Green Wave at 4 p.m. Saturday at Hofheinz Pavilion.
Though in his fi rst season at UH, Darian Thibodeaux has proven to be a fi erce competi-tor, unafraid of getting physical with opponents. | Newton Liu/The Daily Cougar
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Thibodeaux never stays far away from the action
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Sprinter collects second straight weekly awardCougar Sports Services
Despite consistent standout per-formances throughout his freshman year, Errol Nolan never captured a C-USA Athlete of the Week Award.
Now, in his sophomore cam-paign, he has earned two in as many weeks.
Nolan is the new school record holder in the 400-meter dash after running a split of 46.46 at the New
Balance Invitational on Saturday.
Sumlin reshuffl es staff Linebackers coach Leon
Burtnett duties will move to an administrative position as the Director of Player Personnel and Quality Control.
Sumlin hired Jamie Bryant to be the new linebackers coach. Bryant spent the previous 10 seasons as Vanderbilt’s defensive coordinator.
“Coach Burtnett has been a
huge part of my career, beginning with my time as a player under him at Purdue,” Sumlin said in a release. “He has been a great mentor to so many players and coaches, and his new role will take full advantage of his experience in this business.
“I am excited about Jamie join-ing our staff. He fi ts what we do well and has a strong reputation for his development of players. As a former coordinator he also brings great experience.”
Swimming & diving set to host UTThe Cougars will compete
against Texas at 6 p.m. today at the CRWC Natatorium for the third annual “Sprint for the Cure.”
Admission is free, but UH ath-letes will be collecting donations at the door that go toward the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Foundation for breast cancer.
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RESTAURANTS
A job well-done by The Burger GuysWilson ChangTHE DAILY COUGAR
There are burger places, and then there’s that special burger place where you tell all your friends about.
Ladies and gentlemen, that place is called The Burger Guys.
You would think it would hard to heap so much praise for a burger joint on the bustling Westheimer strip, but The Burger Guys is simply worthy of all the praise it has received. An almost uncompromising level of quality and excess makes The Burger Guys the place to go for a burger that’s out of this world.
Consider the most expensive burger The Burger Guys has to offer. For $35, you can have a burger adorned with a slice of foie gras, the fattened liver of a duck. As no one can be expected to put down $35 just for a burger, foie gras or not, let’s focus on the more traditional Indianapolis burger, with cheese, lettuce, pickles and tomato. The formula is pretty standard — until you come face-to-face with the burger itself.
Cooked to a just-done medium, the moment you try to lift the burger, the juices start to run. A staffer said to fl ip the burger upside down so the thicker top bun would soak up the juices. Though the juices would proceed to fl ow after the fi rst bite, there’s no telling how much splatter there
would have been had the burger been oriented the other way.
After a while, though, you’ll just give up wiping your hands after every bite and just proceed with enjoying every bit of it. It’s a feeling people probably haven’t felt since kindergarten — that giddiness that comes when you’re not just enjoy-ing your food, but having fun with it as well.
This goes double for any burger with a fried egg on it. Trying to eat when there are juices and yolk running down to your elbows becomes a herculean task. The impulse is to wipe up, and for courtesy’s sake you eventually should. Thankfully, rolls of towels are available to you reckless eaters out there.
And for you reckless eaters, The Burger Guys rewards you with a variety of different burgers to try. There is the Saigon, inspired by the Vietnamese banh mí sandwich with its pickled carrots and paté. Or how about the sweet and smoky Sydney, topped with smoked cheddar and a grilled pineapple.
But hey, how about some fries with that? The Burger Guys happily oblige with their Brussels fries. Crispy and liberally salted, they are simply divine. Though they come with a variety of dipping sauces, from house-made ketchup and ranch to loaded baked potato, they’re just fi ne straight. It doesn’t hurt that they’re fi nished off with a bit of duck fat.
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There’s nothing revolutionary about the way The Burger Guys are making burgers. It’s still a meat patty sandwiched between a bun with some toppings. Rather, these fi ne folks are revolutionizing how we should treat the burger and how to eat it. There’s no need for a fancy ad campaign or a celebrity to market what’s done on 12225 Westheimer Rd. — because at The Burger Guys, the burger speaks, quite loudly, for itself.
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HEALTH CHECK
Cheat on fruits, try chocolate on Valentine’s Day insteadReesha BrownTHE DAILY COUGAR
A chocolate romance may be the healthiest relationship you’ll ever have.
With studies consistently proving the health benefi ts chocolate has on the body, it’s no wonder why some lovers insist on curling up to a box of chocolaty goodness for Valentine’s Day.
And who can blame them? Scien-tists at Hershey’s Center for Health and Nutrition recently proved that dark chocolate is richer in health-boosting antioxidants than juices made from blueberries, cranberries and other fruits — making it the newest member of the superfood family.
The study compared antioxidants found in blueberries, cranberries, pomegranate and acai fruit juices with small bars of dark chocolate and liquid chocolate. The small bars of chocolate came out on top in all tests, according to the Chemistry Central Journal. On a regrettable note, drinking chocolate came in last in all tests.
Cocoa and dark chocolate tri-umphed in tests for fl avanols, which has been proven to help battle air toxins and prevent wrinkles.
Packed with antioxidants known as polyphenols, which protects against cardiovascular disease and cancer, all it takes to produce heart-healthy results is 6.7 grams of dark chocolate daily, which is about the size of a small chunk of a Hershey’s
bar.Of course, this new information
doesn’t mean you should kick your fruit to the curb and substitute for chocolate. Try chocolate strawber-ries; the new study simply means that both food groups have their benefi ts.
So chocoholics, unwrap those sweet decadent treats; you now have a good excuse to eat the sweet stuff without a guilty conscience.
They’re called sinful for a reasonDon’t trust all chocolate – it will
let you down. Milk chocolate and
drinking chocolates will not provide the same heart-healthy results as small bars of dark chocolate. Some chocolate, as a result of processing, can be loaded with sugars and oil lowering the level of polyphenols (antioxidants). So, when fi shing for a new chocolate love, be careful. Not all chocolate can be trusted.
Chocolate romanceChocolate may be just the thing
needed to get your Valentine’s Day started right. Research suggests that carbohydrates found in chocolate helps increase serotonin, a chemical
that affects moods by increasing appetite and sexual interest.
Chocoholics unitedModeration is the key to a
healthy life. If you feel like you have had one chocolate too many, then you’re probably right. Chocoholics have been proven to show addictive behavior towards the sweet delica-cies, similar to alcoholics. The only difference is chocolate is actually healthy when not overdone. If you grab a Hershey’s bar of chocolate, eat only a small portion of the bar – four sections will do. If you’re
worried your chocolate will go bad, wrap it in foil and place it in the refrigerator to keep it fresh until the next day.
Don’t sweat the sweet stuff If chocolate isn’t your thing,
maybe red wine better suits your culinary taste for bitter-sweet healthy pleasures. Studies show that red wine contains polyphenols and fl avanoids, also found in chocolate, which protects against heart disease. Studies have also proven that alco-hol can increase good cholesterol and can protect arteries. So depend-ing on if you’re planning on sharing your evening with a loved one, or planning on purchasing a bottle as a gift, it’s safe to say you can’t go wrong with red wine — especially since it seems to be the gift that keeps on giving (at least until the last drop, anyway.)
Love your body and mindLoners, don’t fret. Valentine’s Day
can be a good day to show yourself some love. Treating yourself to chocolate and a bouquet of fl owers may be just what the doctor ordered. The fresh aroma from fl owers can provide mental relaxation, helping to decrease stress levels that can raise blood pressure and contribute to heart attacks. But don’t forget, a good black and white romance fi lm (Casablanca is one of my favorites) and a glass of wine can really set a relaxing mood and provide sweet dreams throughout the night.
If given a choice between fruit and chocolate, most people prefer the latter because it’s delicious and has been proven to be rich in antioxidants — which means there’s no reason to feel guilty when you open that heart-shaped box from your Valentine. | Photos.com