Chocolate News

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I was so in the mood to blog today that it's the first thing I'm doing! (Minus breakfast, showering, getting to work, brewing green tea, eating chocolate...)

Chocolate!

The New York Times has re-affirmed something that all of us chocolate lovers have already known for a long time: chocolate is good for you!  Specifically, they cite a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine which suggests that regular consumption of chocolate is correlated with weight loss. In other words, not only do the positive benefits of chocolate on metabolic processes offset the calories, they actually facilitate weight loss: "The people who ate chocolate the most frequently, despite eating more calories and exercising no differently from those who ate the least chocolate, tended to have lower B.M.I.’s. There was a difference of roughly five to seven pounds between subjects who ate five servings of chocolate a week and those who ate none."

YES!

I've been nibbling on Lindt (85% cocoa), but I'd love to find something more compliant with my new blood type diet. Keeping an eye out for something sweetened with agave rather than sugar...

And I will soon be experimenting with Chocolate-Covered Katie's homemade Nutella! As soon as I (or one of my cooking-inclined roommates) buy(s) a Cuisinart, I'll be ready to try this low-calorie, low-sugar, gluten-free recipe that she swears is absolutely delicious!  I can't wait.

And I'll be trying her three-ingredient chocolate bars too, so stay tuned!