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even unsweetened chocolate which bakers use is very bitter, to the point of being unpalatable. To make the sweet, delicious indulgence known as chocolate requires the addition of the bad things, large quantities of sugar and fat. The same article from Newsweek reporting chocolate's antioxidant benefits also reports, in the same paragraph, the high energy density (2300 calories/pound) of chocolate.

Since no one can eat just one Hershey Kiss at a time, and in my opinion, will eat an entire bagful if left alone, I say that overall, chocolate is bad for your health. The morbidity and mortality associated with obesity in our country more than offsets the health benefit of chocolate. I think that it is quite appropriate that it was a Roman comic dramatist, Terence, who first wrote "Moderation in all things". It is appropriate because it is comedic, if not sheer folly, to believe that American chocolate consumers can practice that moderation required, a mere,single Hershey's Kiss per day to gain a health benefit from chocolate. My hat is off to the one who can practice such discipline but as another dramatist said,"Ay, but there's the rub." To eat or not to eat chocolate is not the question, for one must and will imbibe to excess that sensuous delight of gustatory pleasure. So, let us not be fooled that it is healthy or a promotion of health. It is a pleasurable experience and should be left at that. No more of the scientific semantics or self-denial of our lack of discipline, we love chocolate, eat too much of it, and therefore reap the unhealthy effects of such a practice.

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