Archive for August, 2007

Chocolate - good stuff and bad stuff - and what the stuff is

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

This is one  of those stories that we all want to just read the headline, and firmly implant into our mind that it’s good to eat lots of chocolate. Well, it seems that chocolate does have several health benefits. Here is one story in the news recently that described one of them.

Study finds chocolate good for the heart
Houston Chronicle - 1 hour ago
By LINDSEY TANNER AP Dr. Laura Svetkey, director of Duke University’s Hypertension Center stressed that the study results should not be viewed as license to gorge on chocolate.
Tiny amounts of dark chocolate lower blood pressure F

I believe there have been other positive benefits found with chocolate, or at least some of the ingredients of chocolate and I think dark chocolate especially. But I do believe the fine print in all of these article stipulates that a small amount can be good for you and beneficial in some ways, but lot’s of chocolate can do bad things to you too. When I spent a winter gorging on my favorite sweets I found that come spring time I did not get as much ass as my fellow, thinner, girlfriends were getting, which made me want to eat more chocolate, and there the downward spiral began.

Something about one of the chemicals in chocolate that gives you a happy, almost “in love feeling”, like everything is okay. I think it is called something like DL-Phenalynine. This stuff is what makes me crave the candy so bad, but I recently found it is available in capsule form from the health food store, and now I am getting my good feelings without the extra calories.

More about the ingredients of my favorite snack food. - wikipedia chocolate entry

adult dating mistake number 1

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Don’t try to go out on a date with a girl and her best friend, if her best friend is your ex girlfriend. I suppose it is possible that there are some open minded girls out there in the world that wouldn’t mind you taking their friend out on a date, with them. But even with these girls I would think that it would be taboo to do this with an ex. At least an ex that had any feelings for you.

In this dating story I see the mistake in it before the guy even got into it. This is from an adult dating site I was emailed about recently. I can’t wait to see what other dating stories come out on this open blog forum.

It seems to me that dating today is easier online, but I guess there are still plenty of bridges to cross to make it from the online single scene into someone’s bedroom. Don’t screw up a possibly good relationship by bring old baggage into the date with you!