Health Insight: Eating some chocolate really might be good for you – here’s what the research says
As many prepare to indulge in some sweet delights for Easter, DAN BAUMGARDT, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at some of the science behind eating chocolate…
Health Insight: Caffeine – here’s how quitting can benefit your health
ADAM TAYLOR, director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre at Lancaster University in the UK, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the impact of caffeine on the body…
Living income gaps: In Africa’s fields, a plan to pay fair wages for chocolate withers
ANGE ABOA and MAYTAAL ANGEL, of Reuters, report on the plight of cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast and Ghana…
Origins: Easter eggs – their evolution from chicken to chocolate
Scholar SERIN QUINN – in an article first published on The Conversation – looks at where the chocolate Easter egg came from…
Origins: A brief history of chocolate – and some of its surprising health benefits
In an article first published on The Conversation, LIAM CORR, of the University of Huddersfield, looks at the origins of our love for chocolate…
Ghana, Ivory Coast cocoa floor price seen as small step toward ending child labour
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Ghana and Ivory Coast’s move this week to set a minimum price for cocoa beans could help reduce child labour, though it will not be enough on its own, advocates said on Friday. The two West African countries, which together supply about 65 per cent of the world’s cocoa, proposed a […]
A sweet deal? Study shows higher cocoa prices could end child labour in Ghana
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Ghana could end child labour on cocoa farms by increasing the prices it pays impoverished farmers by about 50 per cent, a US study said on Wednesday, as global efforts to end child labour stall. Paying just three per cent more at the farm gate could stop children in Ghana doing the […]
HEALTH INSIGHT: THESE FIVE FOODS ARE CLAIMED TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH. BUT THE AMOUNT WE’D NEED TO CONSUME TO BENEFIT IS…A LOT
In an article first published on The Conversation, EMMA BECKETT and GIDEON MEYEROWITZ-KATZ look at how much you’d have to eat to benefit from certain foods…
CHOCOLATE
I’m not sure who linked Easter with chocolate, but what a brilliant move. Easter eggs. PICTURE: Tim Gouw/Unsplash. Chocolate is said to stimulate the same chemical reaction in the brain as love! Easter is about love, but it’s a bit hard to see in the mess. A group, trapped in a never-ending cycle of cynicism […]
Cocoa companies fail on pledge to stop Africa deforestation – report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Major chocolate companies have failed to keep a promise they made a year ago to stop forests in West Africa being destroyed for cocoa production, a campaign group said on Friday. Companies from Mars to Hershey to Barry Callebaut joined the governments of Ivory Coast and Ghana to launch the Cocoa and […]