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Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

Archive for the ‘Health and Chocolate’ Category

April 20th, 2007

Don’t Kiss Me, Just Give Me Chocolate

Romantic music plays, candlelight flickers, and the couple lean towards each other… and pop a chocolate into their mouths. Betcha thought they were going to kiss each other, didn’t you!
A new study shows that this couple would get the ultimate experience not from a kiss, but from chocolate. The study measured both the brain activity […]

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April 15th, 2007

More Fiber

Now you need to take the idea of chocolate as a health food really seriously. I’ve been telling you that dark chocolate is the healthy stuff, and that your regular milk chocolate bars, though tasty, really don’t have those health benefits. Now Hershey’s is trying to prove me wrong.
They have come out with a line […]

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April 7th, 2007

Offset Your Easter Chocolate

While I’m all for consuming chocolate (obviously), I also completely understand that everything we eat, chocolate included, needs to be offset by some exercise. If we don’t work off the calories we take in, we get fat, plain and simple. My strategy has always been to eat what I want, never diet, but exercise as […]

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April 7th, 2007

Caramel Kit Kat Chunky Bar Recalled

Be careful what you are eating! Nestle Canada has issued a voluntary recall of their Caramel Kit Kat Chunky chocolate bars. This is a result of the possibility that some of the bars may contain pieces of hard plastic. The bars are manufactured in Australia, but it is only this specific type […]

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April 7th, 2007

Chocolate Addiction

Do you pay cash separately for your chocolate so that your family won’t know how much you are eating? Do you eat the equivalent of a dozen chocolate bars each day? I’ve always thought of myself as a chocoholic, but stories like these really show that some people are way further into an addiction to […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

March 24th, 2007

A Sugar-Free Chocolate Easter

Tis the season to hunt down great candy - and one part of my hunt is for great sugar free candy for my husband who is diabetic, and LOVES chocolate. Not only that, he is incredibly picky about his chocolate, making it necessary to start early to find something great for him. […]

By Christina -- 0 comments