Old, but on point, this article on the health benefits of dark chocolate:
Milk chocolate tastes like diabetes, which is why it’s awesome. Dark chocolate tastes like you’re being punished for only shoveling half the driveway. If someone put dark chocolate in your candy bag at Halloween it was considered a hate crime akin to giving you a tooth brush, and you would egg the bastard’s house, as was only right and proper.
But a while back someone came up with an idea to market health claims around dark chocolate to drive sales, and now we have scantily-clad, coconut-water drinking Crossfit junkies “treating” themselves with one or two squares of paleo-approved dark chocolate after they do their dehydrated and well-lit butt-thrusted instagram selfies, because anti-oxidants.
[chocolate/health snobs] love to obsess over their meager ration of dark chocolate and feel all holier than Hershey-eating thou because it’s a “healthy” treat, even though it tastes like a bag of smashed badger asses and the heaps of sugar and fat somehow don’t get factored into the health washing. It’s not too guilty a pleasure because it’s dark. And dark means nutrition, cuz science. Wash it down with a glass of red wine for the resveratrol and you’re bulletproof.
[The article is also interesting because it links to an eating disorder: Orthorexia Nervosa. This is “fixation on righteous eating.”]
Happy Halloween!
Milk chocolate is erzats chocoalte for toiling masses! Calling it chocolate is stretching truth. Fake chocalte. Dark chocolate has way more cocoa (actual chocolate) and Hershey makes and sells panty of it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey%27s_Special_Dark
There is some evidence that chocolate improves endothelial function. However, a substantial portion of the research was paid for by the Mars family, Hershey’s Chocolate [sic] and Nestle, or the “chocolate-booted government thugs” at NIH conducted the research under lobbying from M&M Mars.
would believe that, Jay C., as similar research was paid for by POM-Wonderful to promote the health benefits of pomegranate juice. Cranberries as well, and according to WSJ a few days ago, Mass & Wisconsin cranberry bog farmers are exporting this belief about anti-oxidants in the cranberry to China, where consumers are going crazy for cranberries (exports from the US, and now growing their own)