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Monday, July 20, 2009
A Dark Chocolate A Day
I remember my first marriage. One of our biggest arguments was over chocolate. I didn’t mind it on occasion, but a steady diet of the same didn’t seem very healthy to me.
Today?
Well, today I eat a dark chocolate a day with pleasure.
Truth be known, I actually eat 3 dark chocolates a day, and sometimes more, with joy.
Have I become a junk food junky?
Have I thrown caution to the wind?
Have I stopped “giving a care”?
Certainly not! To be honest, I believe I am healthier today than ever before in my life and I owe a great deal of that to the steady diet of dark chocolate I consume.
Actually, the benefits of chocolate are in the news on a regular basis. However, even these fine morsels contain waxes and fillers that are simply not good for the body. Not to mention the taste. I ate a piece of one the other day and felt like a wax candle would have actually tasted better. Yikes.
So as you can see, I must be forcing myself to endure disgusting unpleasant food that someone somewhere decided to label, as chocolate while it most definitely is not.
Actually, not really! Not at all, as a matter of fact.
Reports I here from others are anywhere from “this tastes like true European chocolate” to “It’s deliciously rich.” However you care to define it, the healthy chocolate I eat these days is a pure delight and it stops cravings too.
I know. I know.
Your brain is shouting out. “It’s chocolate; it must be bad for you.”
Nonetheless, you can indeed eat chocolate and live a healthy life. You might actually find it’s just what the doctor ordered. Eat a dark chocolate a day, or two or three. Yummy.
