nutrition

Several years ago, for Valentine’s Day Wheels gave me two bags of Dove Dark chocolate and a magazine article about the health benefits of dark chocolate.  He’s a keeper!  Gave me chocolate and a reason for eating it!  If you need a reason to eat your Valentine chocolate, you’ve come to the right place! Surprisingly, chocolate is much better for health than Americans recently believed.  In fact, the earliest use for chocolate was medicinal. Chocolate is plant based, as are the fruits and vegetables recommended for good health.    Used by the Aztecs to keep public officials healthy and give their warriors strength and endurance, the beans of the cacao tree were made into a frothy bitter brew.  The Spanish explorer Cortes took cacao beans back to Europe where it was used medicinally and ... [Read More]