Chocolate is never off-topic

Posted by Susan Hartman on January 31, 2008, 12:27 pm

You can have your cake and eat it, too:

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/features/scn-sa-chocolatejan22,0,1220056.story

sue

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Posted by Lucille on January 31, 2008, 4:26 pm

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Sorry but I can't agree that all those chemicals are better. You can't
possibly use unsweetened cocoa without a ton of artificial sweetener and who
knows when the next unnecessary study will be done and they will say Splenda
is bad. I can't for the life of me think that chemicals are better then
natural.

What's in today is out tomorrow.

Remember the butter vs. margarine wars. Today you must not eat butter,
tomorrow margarine was going to kill you. I'm not sure about today's ruling
but I'm still going to butter my bagel, so there.

Lucille

Posted by Karen C in California on January 31, 2008, 8:59 pm

Lucille wrote:
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I got medical dispensation to use butter. According to one of the early
CFS books, there are long chains in margarine that are harder to digest
than butter, and thus, we should stick to the natural stuff that's
easier to digest.

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Posted by Olwyn Mary on January 31, 2008, 10:45 pm

Karen C in California wrote:
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I never gave up either butter or eggs. Fortunately, I took a nutrition
course as a newlywed in Montreal (figured it might help me to learn how
to cook North American)and a lot of myths were dispelled right then,
some of them before they even came up!!

And, I will proudly say, my dh has adult onset diabetes which was
apparently caused by the ACE inhibitors he was prescribed a few years
back, and we keep his A1c levels right where the doc. wants them. Plus,
after he was diagnosed I spent six months between the kitchen and the
computer, recalculated all his favorite foods so he can still eat them,
we eat like kings, (and you should SEE my produce bill!!!)

BTW, Happy Mardi Gras, everybody.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Posted by Joan E. on February 4, 2008, 12:09 pm

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I'm with you 100%, Lucille! I always tell people I'm a natural kind
of girl. :) I refuse to eat margarine and have even stopped using it
in my cooking. I was glad to see that Crisco is now trans-fat free,
too!

If God wanted us to eat all those chemicals, He would have made our
food that way!

Joan

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