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Chocolate Bytes: For the Love of Chocolate

October 1st, 2007

Fall Scavenger Hunt Begins Today!

The Home & Dining Channel’s Fall Scavenger Hunt officially begins today! Click here for the rules and happy hunting!
Here is the list of words you need to find throughout the month to win, and the corresponding day they’ll appear:
Oct 1 - Pumpkin
Oct 2 - Yellow
Oct 3 - Apples
Oct 4 - Hot chocolate
Oct 5 - Maple
Oct […]

By Heather -- 7 comments

July 13th, 2007

Be Sweet to Your Heart

I was reading this month’s Family Circle magazine and found a blurb about chocolate in the health section, titled “Be Sweet to Your Heart:”
“Tea and chocolate have been touted as heart smart, but you’re better off reaching for the latter, reveals a new review. “Cocoa causes systolic and diastolic blood pressure to drop about 5 […]

By Heather -- 4 comments

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 […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

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 […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

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 […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

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 […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments