Chocolate is good for your health!

[kissmekate]

Just found this and thought I'd share it here - isn't the logic unbeatable? ;D

· Chocolate is made from cocoa beans.
· Beans are vegetables.
· Sugar is made from sugar beets. These are vegetables too. So chocolate is a vegetable.
· One step farther: chocolate bars contain milk, so chocolate bars are good for your health.
· Raisins, cherries, orange zest and strawberries covered in chocolate count as fruit, so eat as much as you want to.

· Chocolate helps battle stress. Remember: "STRESSED" read backwards is "DESSERTS".

· If your hands get sticky with melted chocolate, you are eating too slowly.

· Problem: How to transport a bar of chocolate home from the supermarket when it's very warm outside and your car's temperature equals that of a Finnish sauna?

Answer: Eat the chocolate in the supermarket's parking lot.

· Losing weight easily: eat chocolate prior to all meals. This will minimize your appetite and will lead to a reduced ingestion of food. Make sure that you eat equal quantities of white and dark chocolate to keep your body balanced.

· Chocolate contains antioxidants that prevent you from aging fast, i.e. chocolate makes you younger.

[anyother]

Thank you, KMK, this is VERY good news (munches a bar of fruit and nuts chocolate)! ;D ;D

[kissmekate]

Fruit AND nuts AND chocolate is exceedingly good for you!!

[kygal]

Love anything chocolate!

[judypatooty]

I knew there were excellent reasons for eating chocolate!

[chocolate]

And I knew you all loved me . But I am a bit on the dark side of the variety, so I am not everyone's favorite!

Dark choc without much sugar is very good for the health indeed. The sugar itself is not bad either, but we tend to use it to exceed, which could cause problems. Some studies put chocolate next to wine for its antioxidant ingredients and benefits for the health. The biggest contributor to this is the cocoa powder and butter, not so much the sugar and the milk. But as with every food, chocolate brings a sense of pleasure and/or happiness, so it could become addictive. It also could cause allergic reactions.
Use with caution!

[fzen1988]

I read this eating chocolate ice cream! ;D

[rumantic]

Yummmmmm.....chocolate.......OO I just remembered I have a stash in the fridge! Yay!

I think maybe I'll save it for later when Zen is on....it doesn't get any better than Rufus and chocolate....um, is it getting warm in here?

[kissmekate]

Jul 24, 2011 10:22:35 GMT chocolate said:

But I am a bit on the dark side of the variety, so I am not everyone's favorite!

Well, I know that a certain Mr. Sewell prefers the dark stuff