Chocolate

When anything is so longed for as much as chocolate is by so many, someone inevitably has to research the reasons. Why it is usually favored over broccoli is instantly visible. Just look at faces, given a side by side taste of each. Chocolate is craved by women, perhaps more than men, it is believed. But then again, women are considered more prone to depression than men...certainly men are never post-partum! Earlier, we were told it is craved by women pre-menstrually because they lack iron. However, nothing is simple. If it were, it would have been understood much earlier.

Now science is zeroing in. Not only does it taste good, we need to understand WHY it tastes good to us. Beyond that, why does it taste better to some than to others. That is not easily tested. Some chocolate is made from organic and higher quality ingredients.

Much American chocolate, like lots of other products made here, is made without the knowledge passed on for generations in Switzerland and Belgium, for example. Should all this research allow us to eat chocolate guilt-free. It should. Does it let us forget calories. Certainly not. Does it rub in the adage: You are what you eat. Absolutely!! Now turn off the TV, stop shoving chocolates into your mouth, and get back to work!