Mmmmm! Chocolate!

Mmmmm! Chocolate!

Just saying the word - 'chocolate' gives comfort and forces me to close my eyes and get that feel good feeling.

'Chocolate!' the word even rolls off your tongue with smooth creamy delicious goodness.  Combine 'chocolate' with peanut butter - mmm! double goodness - or caramel - another word that conjures up sweet, luxurious goodness - ahh!  sheer heaven in a wrapper.

What is it about 'chocolate' that gives that warm, wonderful, satisfied feeling?  Perhaps it is fond memories of Trick or Treats past.  Or the fact that it was such a rare and special treat to have a 'chocolate' bar as a kid.  Maybe there is something sort of like an Adam/Eve complex attached to 'chocolate' - it was forbidden. 

Well, guess what - it's nothing even the slightest bit so dramatic.  Sorry to burst your philosophical bubble.

 This quote by Baron Justus von Liebig says it all:
"Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficial restorer of exhausted power..."

Who knew???   Baron Justus says 'chocolate' is perfect, it's wholesome, it's delicious (no surprise there) and it is beneficial.  Cool! 

And as Forrest Gump said in the 1994 movie of the same name, "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."   I would add - and it's all good!!!
Now, THAT'S life!!!
 


"You say, "I am allowed to do anything" - but not everything is good for you. You say, "I am allowed to do anything" - but not everything is beneficial.  Don't be concerned for your own good but for the good of others."   I Corinthians 10: 23-24



You can read more about the benefits of chocolate by following this link to this very interesting  article published by the Medical Wellness Association:  (Once a teacher always a teacher - Rd)
Benefits of Chocolate    www.medicalwellnessassociation.com/articles/chocolate_benefits.htm‎

Disclaimer:  The following link is an article published by the Medical Wellness Association on the internet and not meant to be taken as advise from this blogger on the benefits of eating chocolate.  In other words, eat it at your own risk.  ; )