5 Nontoxic gift ideas for your valentine

• Send her Choco-love with a loving note wrapped with colorful ribbons handmade wrapped by you, less is more and treasures come in little pearl boxes. Dark chocolate is a happy pill and a great valentine gift idea for her.
• Send your love a life plant instead of cut flowers, so that every time the plant is watered, it will remind you and your love to water your love with warmth and understanding. I would recommend a Chocolate Mint Plant; it has relaxing and enchanting smell. This is a novelty plant, it's a favorite. When you smell it, you feel enchanted (joy). They grow too well! If left to their own devices, they will rapidly take over your garden which can be a good thing if you like it. 
• Send him or her antioxidant raw chocolate goji, eating foods high in Antioxidants is a healthy and smart choice. Antioxidants renew cells and prevent free radicals from damaging cells in our body. If they’re passionate about anti-aging stuff and staying young, you will be doing your lover well.
• Send E-card and reduce the paper junk in her post box or make her a customizable handmade one, print and mail it to her.
• Give her a relaxing Eco-spa massage, have dinner and spend some tea time or movie time together.
• Take a trip to your favorite romantic secret spot on a bicycle (camp out around fire & barbecue with your loved one) or go for a boat ride. 
• Watch the stars in the sky at night with your lover through a telescope.
• If you need some help with your valentine, read Real Time relationship. 
• Check your zodiac, this Chinese horoscope stuff is so real, find out who could be your best match this valentine.

 Author:
Onyinye A is a freelance writer who specializes in nontoxic self improvement, green & Eco-friendly living, nontoxic lifestyle (preventing cancer, illness and toxicity) and everything related to organic living. Her work has been published by nontoxiclifestyle.org, Ezine.com, and other online and print publications.

Happy pills in a jar for this season---Dark Chocolate

Its winter and the weather is chilly cold, recession is knocking at our door and we are worried about what gifts to send and a little depressed from stress, which can cause free radical build up and damage to our bodies. (Free radicals are highly charged atoms that are missing one electron, making them unstable. They enter our body through sunlight, poor diet, use of alcohol, tobacco, airborne chemicals, and stress; they steal an electron in order to gain electron stability. Free radicals target fatty acids, cell membranes which are rich in phospholipids, DNA, and proteins and in the process cellular activities are replaced by chaos of electron swapping, which eventually disrupts cell function. Free radicals are the primary factors in aging and inflammation because they produce random radical change and disrupt normal metabolic processes, over time leading to disease). So what can we do to reduce stress---bring some joy and Santa moments to our life this candy season; we can make time for candies--chocolates of course. Dark chocolate are little bitter, sweet and high antioxidant snacks that brings on pleasurable feelings because it releases natural feel-good chemicals called endorphins in your brain.

Dark Chocolate is a psychoactive food. It is made from the seeds of the tropical cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. The cacao tree was named by the 17th century Swedish naturalist, Linnaeus. The Greek term theobroma means literally "food of the gods". Dark chocolate made of cocoa bean from the plant (Theobroma cacao) is a rich source of flavonoids, rich in cell-protecting antioxidants.

                                          

                                         Other benefits of Dark chocolate:

• Dark chocolates are highly loaded with epicatechin- an active member of a group of compounds called plant flavoniods. Epicatechin may improve blood flow and can potentially improve the health of the heart. 
• Dark chocolates have antioxidant properties that are effective against aging caused by oxidative stress, inhibition of platelet activity, and activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase due to its flavonoids content. 
• Flavoniods in dark chocolate prevents cholesterol from gathering in blood vessels, reduces the risk of blood clots, and slows down the immune responses that lead to clogged arteries. 
• Dark chocolate was found to reduce blood pressure, improve blood flow and prevent plague formation in the arteries and had mild anti-clotting effects

• Dark chocolate has potential cancer-fighting properties---immune boosting.

• Dark chocolates improve cognitive function.

• Pure dark chocolate improves endothelial function and increases plasma epicatechin concentrations that aids wound healing.

• Pure cocoa can help elevate insomnia because it’s relaxing and can put you to sleep—you tend to dream more when you drink pure cocoa by nettle and eat dark chocolate! 

   Send an antioxidant gift to a friend ---organic dark cacao chocolate truffles as a Santa gift.