Here is an arrangement of shopping bags at the Macy’s Departmental Store in New York City. This flagship store is a shopper’s delight of eight floors covering an entire block in the middle of the city. Visitors to the city can pick up a shopping pass for 11% discounted prices!!
Brioche menorahs arranged……at Eli’s Bread, Grand Central Terminal, New York City
This study sounds too good to be true….a National Institutes of Health funded study conducted by the Department of Medicine of the University of California, San Diego, found people who eat chocolate more frequently tend to be thinner than those who consume the sweet treat less often.
Researchers asked nearly 1,000 adults in Southern California questions about types of food and beverages including how many times a week they ate chocolate. Body mass index, which is a measure of body fat, was also calculated as part of the study. The participants who ate chocolate more often didn’t consume fewer calories overall, or exercise more, than their non-chocoholic counterparts. In fact, the more frequent chocolate eaters consumed more total calories!
The researchers caution that the study doesn’t prove a link between frequent chocolate munching and weight loss.
Rather, the findings suggest that the health benefits of chocolate may be linked to how many times in a given week chocolate is eaten rather than the total amount consumed in that week, says the study’s lead researcher, Beatrice Golomb, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Eating a small amount of chocolate each of five days during a week was linked to a lower BMI, even if the person ate more calories overall and didn’t exercise more than other participants.
These findings were published as a research letter in the recent Archives of Internal Medicine, and this article details the study.
Madhu, this one seems just right for you – not sure you’ll read it all 
Searching for some particular pictures, I chanced upon this picture of the sunset…….through the leaves and branches…..
View of a magnificent New York skyscraper seen through an opening between two other skyscrapers…
