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Perugia, italy is a storybook city, famous throughout the world for its chocolates. and equally famous to students as a party town, where getting high and hooking up is a prerequisite. for the college experience. >> to the average american tourist, this town looks like an idyllic italian mountain town filled with beautiful art and churches. if you spent a little time there and you read italian, you start to realize every single headline is about drugs, its about gang violence. >> everything look...

Professor of medicine at university of north carolina. we have bigger percentage of type 2 diabetes, associated with obesity. so why would chocolate help with something associated with obesity? >> you know it is interesting, chocolate and red wine, contain chemicals call flavoniods. these chemicals improve the way our body respond to insulin and lower levels. typediabetes dont respond well to insulin resistance. these chemicals in the wonderful chocolates and wines improve the way we respond to ...

Test. how to make me eat low calorie food and actually enjoy it. so you sent round to my apartment in new york all this stuff. >> all this food. one days worth of food. >> i thought this is weird. this has got popcorn, caramel, chocolates. puddings. >> it looks like the worst stuff you could eat. >> looks like stuff that would pile on the pounds. lets go through the total here. what was the total in calories? >> lets see if the audience can guess all the calories here. six meals. tangerine how m...

>> no, you dont. >> i cant deny i said anything to mika in this segment. >> it must have been john tower. >> are we saying that the chargers beat? >> they did. >> at home. >> wrap this up. have to get to must reads. >> finish up with the patriots. >> donny, you going with the broncos? >> broncos. >> patriots and colts? >> she is giving out chocolates now. >> what are you getting? >> i cant go against the patriots. >> mika? >> colts. andrew luck. i mean, come on. >> really? talking in her ear! >>...

To tuesday. this is one of those arctic blasts that you dont see all that often, but its here, and its going to be one of the coldest weather stretches weve seen in quite some time, alex. >> yeah, im going to keep you out just for a second. we know the players and fans there in green bay are certainly hearty. is the stadium helping, the team officials doing anything to help them out for those who want to brave the game? >> reporter: well, they are passing out about 70,000 hand warmers. you know,...

>> joe, i got one for ya. open the door. go right over here. >> lifes like a box of chocolates. you never know what youre going to get. >> ah! >> you got a porn star mustache! >> this is like real -- >> ah! i know. [ laughter ] >> you look like somebody out of the -- >> ah. >> lets walk out this way. >> its a lot of [ bleep ] getting sentenced today. >> dont know. ready to get it over with. its been nearly a year since they have seen each other, and now its time for the four men convicted of s...

And i didnt have any qualms about it, because the amount of time which was four or five days, it would have gotten here anyway in four or five days regular without it being rushed or anything. >> i think people have to be a little understanding. sometimes you cant get everything you want the way you want it. and you have to be a little patient. im sure theyre trying as hard as they can. >> words of wisdom. >> reporter: good representation of -- absolutely. thats a good representation of what we ...

Social media in terms of the reactions to what has happened. >> now i have to speak as someone who once worked at ups. i used to load the trucks at 4:ocho 0 in the morning. worst job ever. if you imagine the lucy and ethal scene with the conveyer belt full of chocolates, only 50-pound boxes that never stop. i wonder if we shouldnt blame retailers a little bit more and our procrastinating self-s for waiting, but retailers are promising guaranteed christmas delivery, even if you ordered monday nig...

Ordered it from guaranteed it. and i didnt have any qualms about it, because the amount of time which was four or five days, it would have gotten here anyway in four or five days regular without it being rushed or anything. >> i think people have to be a little understanding. sometimes you cant get everything you want the way you want it. and you have to be a little patient. im sure theyre trying as hard as they can. >> words of wisdom. >> reporter: good representation of -- absolutely. thats a ...

A third-party vendor went viral. the posts warned against the negative effects of fast food, even going so far as labeling a cheeseburger and fries, core items on its menu, of course, as a, quote, unhealthy choice. and just before christmas, a las vegas cab driver thought a passenger had left a bag of chocolates in his car. it turns out the bag contained $300,000 in cold, hard cash. thats right. well, he turned that bag over to police who along with casino officials tracked down the rightful o...