Chocolate comes from cocoa beans.  Sugar is derived from either Sugar Cane or Beets.  Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category.  Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.   To go one step further, chocolate candy bars contain milk, which is a dairy product, so candy bars are health food.
Diet tip:  Eat a chocolate bar before each meal.  It will take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.
Chocolate has many preservatives.  Preservatives make you look younger.   Therefore, chocolate is therapeutic.
Handy tip:  A nice box of chocolates can provide your total required intake of calories in one convenient place.  And, no cooking or clean-up necessary.
Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.  Fruits and vegetables are important food groups.
Problem:  How to get two pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car.
Solution:  Eat it in the car.
If you eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet?
Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today.  That way, you'll get at least one thing done.


Thanks to Chocolate Passion, by Tish Boyle and Timothy Moriarty, for the luscious photos.  Recipes are available from their book published by John Wiley & Sons, 1999; Photo Credits: John Uher, 1999.
  
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