Chocolates reduce stress.

When times get tough, people tend to dip into the chocolate stash more often than they might otherwise, UC San Diego researchers recently confirmed. And as it turns out, that kind of emotional eating might not be such a bad thing. You know what kind f havoc stress and its sneaky sidekick cortisol can wreak on your body. Swiss scientists found that when very anxious people ate an ounce and a half of dark chocolate every day for two weeks, their stress hormone levels were significantly reduced and the metabolic effects of stress were partially mitigated. After a breakup, break out a dark chocolate bar rather than a pint of ice cream.