Tag Archive: New Year’s Resolution

Guiltless Chocolate Brownies

January 7, 2015

In the spirit of New Year's resolutions, here's a guiltless version of delicious chocolate brownies for us all. You needn't worry about whittling your middle while devouring these tasty treats!
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World’s Largest Chocolate

January 3, 2012

The holidays' high is still lingering, and I know your system is still loaded with all the good (but not necessarily healthy) stuff!

New Year means new anything. Case in point: new world record.

In Ooty, a hilly tourist town in Tamil Nadu India, a chocolatier, named Fazloor Rahman, of NPS Supermarket, has set a new world record for the longest home-made milk chocolate bar. The record-setting bar measures 18 meters in length and 0.75 meter in width. That beats the previous record made last March by an Italian confectionary which measured 14.87 meters long and 0.75 meter wide.
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Think, and Eat Less Chocolate?

December 14, 2010

Do you ever crave a chocolate bar and then resign yourself to only dream about it, knowing that if you act upon your desires it will just add extra calories to your already holiday-cookie saturated diet?

If you are like me (and answered YES, YES, YES!) then there may be some good news in your future. Close your eyes and imagine that you are eating that chocolate bar, and you will devour less of it!

There is a new study released from Carnegie Mellon University that suggests thinking about forbidden food could make you eat smaller portions of it. Forming a mental picture before we eat causes us to reduce the amount we would eat of that particular food later.
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