Good News for Valentine's Day - Chocolate might be good for you!

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Calorocas, shock media. Hello Jenny
Mack with five good news stories. Happy

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Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is an
opportunity to show affection or celebrate romance with

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cards, flowers, and candy.
Research shows that being touched or touching someone

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can activate areas of the brain that
control empathy, emotions, and certain social

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behaviors. Health experts believe the touch
helps communicate a sense of connection and strengthens

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positive emotions that enhance family, friendly, and romantic relationships. Research also shows

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that these positive aspects of relationships contribute
to and may even form a foundation for

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good physical health. But don't worry
about your pets. There's no need to

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give your dog a card or candy, according to these centers for disease control

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and prevention. Studies show to the
bond between people and their pets is linked

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to health benefits such as lower blood
pressure, lower cholesterol levels, and decrease

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feelings of loneliness and anxiety. Does
pet your dog or cat or whatever else

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you got, maybe of one of
those service alligators. No, don't pet

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him, that's dangerous. Good news. Chocolate may or may not be healthy.

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Many modern studies have shown an association
between the consumption of pure cocoa and

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modern reductions in risk for a range
of cardiovascular illnesses and even for diabetes.

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Research done in two thousand and nine
on the Kuna, people who live on

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islands off the coast of Panama lead
some credence to the results. Doctor Norman

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Hollenberg of the Harvard Medical School found
that the Kuna, who drink up to

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ten cups of gravy thick homegrown hot
cocoa a day, live longer and have

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lower rates of high pretension, heart
disease and stroke than most Western populations.

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The study allows that maybe other factors
contribute. The precise line where chocolate morse

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from a sugary indulgence to a food
that you know might be healthy is subject

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of a debate, but it's fair
to say that seventy two percent, a

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level match by most commercially available dark
chocolate, is a good place to start.

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Back in twenty twenty, a one
hundred and four year old US marine

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veteran he had never celebrated Valentine's Day, they got a sudden daylyge of love

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letters pouring to his mailbox. William
White, known as Major Bill, was

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awarded a Purple Heart after he fought
at ewo Jima during World War Two.

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He served a total of thirty five
years active duty. He was living in

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an assisted living facility in Stockton,
California. One of his fellow residents launched

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a social media campaign called Operation Valentine, which recruited friends, family members,

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and strangers to send Valentine's Day cards
to White, hoping to get one hundred

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mailed. White said, even when
his wife of forty two years was alive,

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they never exchanged cards or celebrated the
holiday. So imagine his surprise when

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he was flooded with more than seventy
thousand love letters, the greeting cards,

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and well wishes from all fifty states. White told Reuters back in twenty two,

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it's just too fantastic. It's something
I've never heard of. Seeing all

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of a sudden here, it's like
a ton of bricks. I'm sort of

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speechless. Major Bill White passed away
in twenty twenty two, aged one hundred

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and six. Good news, we've
still got some time to figure it out.

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The bad news is NASA thinks an
asteroid could hit Earth on Valentine's Day.

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No, not this year. Could
happen in twenty forty six. NASA's

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Planetary Defense Coordation Office says it's been
tracking an asteroid that has a very small

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chance of hitting the Earth on February
fourteenth, twenty forty six. For now,

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they think it'll pass us by at
a distance of one point one million

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miles. The asteroid is named twenty
twenty three d w and congratulations to the

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world's most romantic village. Who is
it? It's the community of Lover in

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Wiltshire, England. People flock there
to use the post office and get things

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stamped February fourteenth. The official post
office closed a few years ago, but

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a team of volunteers stamped cards with
Lovers special postmark before they're sent all around

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the world. Residents of the village
also hang heard shape bunting wreaths and balloons

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on their garden fences and front doors. One local couple seventy one year old

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Jill and her husband Fred, he's
seventy two. They like the name of

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the village and the idea of being
lovers from Lover the five Good News Stories

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for Today. If you enjoy the
program, a friend about it. They

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might like it to have a great
Valentine's Day. And I hope somebody gives

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you a hug.