Snorting Cocoa

Belgian chocolatier Dominique Persoone snorts cocoa powder off his Chocolate Shooter in his factory in Bruges, February 3, 2015. When Belgian chocolatier Dominique Persoone created a chocolate-sniffing device for a Rolling Stones party in 2007, he never imagined demand would stretch much beyond the rock 'n' roll scene. But, seven years later, he has sold 25,000 of them. Inspired by a device his grandfather used to propel tobacco snuff up his nose, Persoone created a 'Chocolate Shooter' to deliver a hit of Dominican Republic or Peruvian cocoa powder, mixed with mint and either ginger or raspberry. Picture taken on February 3, 2015. 

REUTERS/Francois Lenoir 

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When Belgian chocolatier Dominique Persoone created a chocolate-sniffing device for a Rolling Stones party in 2007, he never imagined demand would stretch much beyond the rock 'n' roll scene. But, seven years later, he has sold 25,000 of them.
Inspired by a device his grandfather used to propel tobacco snuff up his nose, Persoone created a 'Chocolate Shooter' to deliver a hit of Dominican Republic or Peruvian cocoa powder, mixed with mint and either ginger or raspberry.
"The mint and the ginger really tinkle your nose," the 46-year-old said in his chocolate factory in the medieval city of Bruges. "Then the mint flavor goes down and the chocolate stays in your brain."

http://news.yahoo.com/chocolate-snorting-offers-way-cocoa-high-161425959--sector.html;_ylt=AwrSyCS29dRUkXoAM_7QtDMD

Chocolate snorting offers new way to a cocoa high

By Miranda Alexander-Webber
February 6, 2015

Chocolate Helps Losing Weight

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2458375/Trying-lose-weight-Slimmers-continue-eating-treats-likely-succeed.html

Trying to lose weight? Better keep eating chocolate! Slimmers who carry on enjoying favourite treats more likely to shed the pounds
Research found 86 per cent of slimmers who ate their favourite treats during diet lost weight
Survey proves diets 'centred around food elimination' are more likely to fail
Other research found eating chocolate could also help you live longer
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 18:26 EST, 13 October 2013 | UPDATED: 04:42 EST, 14 October 2013

French Woman Lived to Be 122

Jeanne Louise Calment

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She ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil, which she said she poured on all her food and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilo of chocolate every week.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Jeanne+Calment

Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) [1] had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of 122 years, 164 days (44724 days total). [2] She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson.

Women Prefer Chocolate To Sex

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2242623/How-women-sex-chocolate-One-say-treat-thing-forego.html

How women would rather give up sex than chocolate: One in five say
treat would be last thing they forego
More than 20 per cent of women said that chocolate would be the last
thing they could give up, according to aa Cancer Research UK campaign
But just nine per cent said that sex would be the hardest thing to forego
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 21:03 EST, 3 December 2012 | UPDATED: 02:38 EST, 4 December 2012

Corporate Espionage

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But the smart money didn’t know what the smarter money — aka hedge funds — knew. Working off high-resolution satellite photographs, the same type of eye in the sky used by the CIA to spy and gather intelligence, these hedge fund traders saw first-hand that the flooding wasn’t that bad.[. . .]

Dumpster diving private eyes in pursuit of corporate secrets.[. . .]
in demand former spies, police detectives and other professionals skilled at snooping out information are in the corporate world.[. . .]
In the end, Nestle’s spy network was able to prove that Mars did, in fact, work tirelessly to sink its successful Magic egg."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/secret_recipes_xh7NOBvXCX9PrbOPDMlxGI

Corporate espionage creates ‘peek’ earnings

By RICHARD WILNER

New York Post

Last Updated: 4:43 AM, April 4, 2010

Posted: 12:25 AM, April 4, 2010