OK, I'm struggling to understand here, so let me give it a shot.
According to Jamie Oliver, health experts and all the Government bigwigs, we're getting fatter. Britain is now the most obese country in Europe (apparently) and we're all more couch potatoes than ever before (apparently). The "war on fast food" still hasn't been won, in fact, they're winning. And we're all stuffing ourselves with unhealthy food. AND, we're being warned by assemblies, experts, the news and countless other media to exercise, stay healthy, eat better food and basically throw off the fatty shackles.
Yet, inexplicably (if MSN Today is anything to go by) it is "National Chocolate Week". See the quotes below:
It’s Chocolate Week!
Chocoholics know that chocolate is so much more than a treat - it's an essential aid to get us through life's stressful, heartbreaking or demanding moments.
Chocolate Week (October 16-22), is the perfect excuse to celebrate chocolate's life-saving and enhancing qualities, with lots of tasty nationwide events taking place.
...am I missing something?
According to Jamie Oliver, health experts and all the Government bigwigs, we're getting fatter. Britain is now the most obese country in Europe (apparently) and we're all more couch potatoes than ever before (apparently). The "war on fast food" still hasn't been won, in fact, they're winning. And we're all stuffing ourselves with unhealthy food. AND, we're being warned by assemblies, experts, the news and countless other media to exercise, stay healthy, eat better food and basically throw off the fatty shackles.
Yet, inexplicably (if MSN Today is anything to go by) it is "National Chocolate Week". See the quotes below:
It’s Chocolate Week!
Chocoholics know that chocolate is so much more than a treat - it's an essential aid to get us through life's stressful, heartbreaking or demanding moments.
Chocolate Week (October 16-22), is the perfect excuse to celebrate chocolate's life-saving and enhancing qualities, with lots of tasty nationwide events taking place.
...am I missing something?
posted by Rosby at
2:00 PM
9 Comments:
. . . Oh well.
I like Chocolate.
And Chocolat is a great word.
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Anna, at 2:09 PM
Damn Anonymous!
Chocolat.
Sounds all french and sexy and weird.
Shockola.
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Unknown, at 9:42 AM
Of itself chocolate isn't unhealthy. What's unhealthy is eating too much of it (eg eating some everyday at school) without exercising enough to burn off the energy. In sensible (i.e. small) amounts it can be beneficial to health.
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Anonymous, at 10:37 AM
i love chocolate, but i see your point
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Anonymous, at 1:04 PM
Chocolate itself doesn't tend to be the problem, especially when it's proper chocolate not some mass-produced cocoa-poor fat-rich excuse for chocolate (as most is), and I would guess that this thing is aimed at the 'chocolate connosieur'(like there are probably wine festivals, but binge drinking is still a problem). Usually it's the staple diet being made of crap that is the problem - turkey twizzlers and all that. And crisps, and sweets like 'zooby-jooby fruits', as a certain teacher once so eloquently described them.
Anyway, chocolate contains cocoa beans, which are a vegetable, so therefore it must be good for you... :D
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Anonymous, at 1:41 PM
really cocoa beans are a vegetable?
Wow i never thought of that.
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Megan, at 8:58 AM
What are you missing? I take it that doesn't include your sanity...
Well ummmm, what do you want me to say? I'm addicted to chocolate!
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Anonymous, at 9:54 AM
hello my dear!!! slightly worried by the increase of brokeback mountain pictures!!! national chocolate week????? if that's allowed I'm going to have a week dedicated to me when I die!!! I think that would be much more fun, there could be big posters of me everywhere!! that would be just as pointless!!! but come on chocolate is pretty lush, especially easter eggs!!!!! luv ya really!!! u no hu, or maybe u don't , but never mind!!!! just remember, the apple pie doubled in size!!! no it really did!!!
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Anonymous, at 5:02 AM
i do love chocalate...
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Megan, at 9:18 AM
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