How bad will it make you feel when I tell you the internet got it wrong when it claimed chocolate will make you thinner? (Read Sarah Kaplan, "How, and Why, a Journalist Tricked News Outlets into Thinking Chocolate Makes You Thin," Washington Post, online, May 28, 2015.) To complicate things even further, how many fattening calories are in chocolate depends (to paraphrase Bill Clinton), on how you define chocolate. Cocoa, the basis of chocolate products, is relatively low in calories. It's the additional sugar and butterfat and other goodies that are added to the cocoa that will swell up the calories. But cocoa by itself has an extremely bitter taste; nonetheless. chocolate does have a few health benefits. When I find out what they are, I'll let you know.
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