The chocolate bar that's 'healthier' than 5lbs of apples

The Daily Mail ^ | Nov. 4, 2007 | Staff

[PROCON]

Chocolate should be required eating for all FR personnel.:)

[aruanan]

Refinements to the manufacturing process mean the product, which goes on sale today, is said to contain up to three times more antioxidants than other brands.

That doesn't necessarily make it better. Why not just get a couple cans of BHA and BHT and sprinkle them on your cereal every morning? The poison is in the dose and many things critical to health are deadly in too great a quantity. Even something as supposedly innocuous as an antacid is unhealthy if used in too great a quantity. The hydrochloric acid pit of your stomach is death to all sorts of microorganisms. And gastric acid is required for obtaining adequate levels of vitamin B12.

[fanfan]

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ~ Charles M. Schulz.

Most people get that one backwards.

[TLI]

I guess Woody got it right after all.

[fanfan]

It’s not a dumb question. It’s a perceptive one.

The article doesn’t discuss where the supposedly ‘good-for-us’ antioxidants are coming from. Garlic grown in China? Spare me.
Our genes probably play more of a role in our life spans then how many veggies we eat.

For FReepers, what is not reported, is as important as what is being reported.
:)

[fanfan]

Chocolate should be required eating for all FR personnel.:)

Um.

It's not?

[fanfan]

Why not just get a couple cans of BHA and BHT and sprinkle them on your cereal every morning?

Because that sounds like pesticides or something!

Yuck.

Chocolate.....Yum.

[fanfan]

Someone ping me if you find a way to get it across the pond.

Good night everyone.

:-)

[Lady Jag]

CHOXIE bars in various flavors are sold at TARGET. Not Choxie+, the parents.

[mtbopfuyn]

Prestat claims those two squares a day will provide all the health boost a person needs.

I suspect I would need a few more. Yummmm, chocolate!

[McLynnan]

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. If two squares a day are good for you twelve squares a day might make me immortal.

[Balding_Eagle]

Nothing more than a liberal trick to deny us another pleasure.

Here’ how it works; you only need two squares, right?

Up until now a person needed to eat how much? TEN squares?

We just have been swindled out of eight squares!

[meowmeow]

Choxi+ is the first chocolate bar designed to be extra-rich in antioxidants.

I'm started to get creeped out by how the food industry is pumping food full of stuff to make it super-food - as opposed to having people just enjoying a healthy diet of whole foods.

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve hershey’s nice to stir into some coffee...