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Chocolate Facts:Everything You Need to Know About Chocolate• Chocolate is a Vegetable: Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean = vegetable.• Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable. • To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So candy bars are a health food. • Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want. • If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly. • The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot. • Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less. • If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other? • Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. • Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done. • A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy? • If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. You can't let that happen, can you? • REMEMBER: "Stressed" spelled backward is "desserts". "If you obey the rules, you miss all of the fun." - Katharine Hepburn |
Chocolate Rules:If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want. The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot. Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite and you'll eat less. A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy? If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you? If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves. If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other? Money talks. Chocolate sings. Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Q. Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous? A. Because no one wants to quit. If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. I'd give up chocolate, but I don't want to!!! Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done. Can't Eat Can't eat beef....... ..mad cow Can't eat chicken...... ....bird flu Can't eat eggs..... .cholesterol Can't eat pork....... .....bacteria Can't eat fish....... ....mercury Can't eat fruit ...... ..insecticides Can't eat vegetables..... ....herbicides Now, the way I see it; that only leaves ......... .. CHOCOLATE ! |
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