Chocolate could be the new red wine. Something that tastes good, is pleasurable, and at the same time is healthy for you. It would be nice to have something to augment that paleo-non-gluten diet you've been adhearing to. Hershey's covered broccoli sounds pretty good. ;)

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The findings in a study of animals cannot be directly applied to human obesity, but may help in understanding the condition and in developing therapies to treat it, researchers wrote in the journal "Nature Neuroscience."

The study, involving rats, found that overconsumption of high-calorie food can trigger addiction-like responses in the brain and that high-calorie food can turn rats into compulsive eaters in a laboratory setting, the article said.

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Lessons from a life lived long?

Sing songs with gusto. Attend your first Red Sox game at age 107 and lead the crowd in a rousing rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Joke often. And have darn good genes.

Until her final weeks, before dying in her sleep at the age of 114 on Sunday at a New Hampshire nursing home, Mary Josephine Ray, the oldest person in America and second-oldest in the world, also played cribbage, watched her soap operas and kept a snifter of port nearby.

Ray attributed her longevity to God. But others credit her joie de vivre, approaching each day with a sense of wonder and gratitude. "She always lived in the present, every day,’’ her granddaughter Kathy Ray told The Boston Globe. “She took each day as it came. She lived in the moment and never gave a thought to dying.’’

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According to a new study published in the journal, Human Reproduction, women who have higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their systems were 22 percent less likely to be diagnosed with endometriosis. On the opposite side of the spectrum, women who consumed diets with more trans fat had a 48 percent increased risk of developing the condition.

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