Our Dark Chocolate Fondue recipe looks even better given the latest news from Columbia University. Older adults who drank a high-flavanol chocolate beverage for three months performed as well as people two or three decades younger on a memory test. Read more about the surprising health benefits of dark chocolate here. 

If you’re looking to tap into your creative side, consider a round of meditation. But don’t focus too intensely. Researchers in the Netherlands found that “open monitoring meditation”—in which the meditator remains open to all thoughts and sensations without focusing on a particular object or concept—spawned more new ideas compared to meditating on a particular thought or object.

Regardless of the form, meditation offers surprising health benefits. Read more here.