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In a mouth-watering claim sure to make many chew the fat, a Japanese doctor tells that eating chocolate can help you lose weight.

“Chocolate lovers can still enjoy the tastes they like and lose weight while doing so,” Hiroshige Itakura, an Ibaraki Christian University professor specializing in “lifestyle diseases,” like hypertension and hardening of the arteries.

But, just as anything healthy to eat almost certainly tastes terrible, there’s also a catch to Itakura’s assertion. He says that chocolate’s weight loss benefits can only be obtained under strict conditions.

The chocolate being eaten has to have cacao content of at least 70 percent, no more than 50 grams a day can be consumed and it should be broken up and eaten during or before each of the three meals. Following these guidelines for a month could lead to a loss of 2 to 3 kilograms.

“The greater the cacao content, the more effective its weight loss effects are. …

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Britney Spears is spiraling out of control, but what’s new? The perpetually loaded pop star hit the town in New York City at night, and even though she feined sobriety by asking that alcohol be kept away from her table, Britney was three sheets to the wind before the night even got rolling.

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A couple enjoy a bath incorporating chocolate at a hot springs spa resort in Hakone, west of Tokyo, Feb. 9, 2007 in preparation for Valentine’s Day.

The bath containing cacao extract and trehalose and has the effect of keeping moisture in the skin and producing beautiful skin,
Girls enjoy having a bath incorporating chocolate at a hot springs spa resort in Hakone

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Nominations for the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced by The Recording Academy, reflecting a year in which multiple genres were represented in top categories, new up-and-comers were nominated alongside established artists and a diverse array of producers and other creative professionals garnered multiple nominations. The 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on “GRAMMY Sunday,” Feb. 11, at Staples Center in Los Angeles .
The press event was held at The Music Box @ Fonda in Hollywood and was attended by national and international media, as well as key music industry executives. Artists reading nominations this morning included Mary J. Blige, James Blunt, Chris Brown, Evanescence’s Amy Lee, Ludacris, Corinne Bailey Rae, Rascal Flatts, Justin Timberlake and KT Tunstall.

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The return of Ronaldo to Italian soccer will not have witnesses in the tribunes.
The Brazilian forward will make his debut with the Milan without fans in San Siro, one of the 25 stages that the Italian authorities determined that they do not fulfill the safety measures.

Acquired of Real Madrid after an intense and difficult negotiation, Ronaldo surely did not imagine a debut in the solitude.

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Best-selling author Sidney Sheldon dies at 89

Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world’s most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 89.

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2007 movie Hannibal Rising, which tells the story of teenage Hannibal and Mischa Lecter after their parents are killed in World War
Gong Li

Hannibal Rising” attempts to show the man behind the muzzle by delving into his formative years — with risible results.

On paper, there might have been something to the notion of how an innocent young boy could grow up into a notorious serial killer with a taste for fava beans and a nice Chianti to go along with that insatiable appetite for human flesh.

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