I was shocked the other day when I was having a phone conversation with a woman about health. This woman was under the impression that chocolate is a food! Let me be very clear. IT IS NOT A FOOD. IT IS A TOXIN.
Your first clue is this – anything that is THAT addictive just has to be bad for you. What’s the difference between a craving and a healthy urge from your body to eat something good for you? If it’s a craving, which you get from something that is weakening for your body, the more you eat, the more you want. Like with chocolate. If it’s a healthy urge, then when you’ve eaten some, you don’t want anymore.
In the “old” days when I was growing up in the 60s in Australia, chocolate was something that we had a few SQUARES of, on special days only. It wasn’t until I went to university that I had a whole bar for myself. Over the years I have seen stores put more and more chocolate in the stores, closer and closer to the counter. They are good drug pushers and realize that it’s very hard for an addict to walk past this without getting some.
For most people, chocolate is worse than candy, (unless you are super sensitive to some of the terrible colorings they put in candy).