Emma you wrote,

> do you have any actual proof of this or are you guessing? i would very
> much like to know if this is true as i tend to consume quite alot of
> this evil!!!!

He is full of it. The first people to use Chocolate in the Old
World as opposed to Native Americans were Catholic monks to help
stay awake during their long (religious) vigils.
A few years later it spread to the noble ladies and sermons were
preached against its use in church, the ladies stayed awake and
gossipped.

Chocolate is a neutral substance full of good things but calorific
and you need to keep consumption down and exercise else the choco
calories will cause you trouble.

Here is little verse parody on the matter.

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.

later
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