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I have craved and eaten chocolate two days in a row. I had that chocolate in the house for weeks. Why does the craving strike at a given time? Need for minerals, the saturated fat, the sugar? All of the above? For me, a good dose of chocolate is like stoking the furnace. NOW comes the motivation and the ability to do chores or exercise or read with focus and comprehension. Even after all these years of doing Peat, reading Peat, appetite remains mysterious.
(To add context, I would gladly eat chocolate daily but avoid it because of the calorie bomb.)
I love chocolate–chocolate cake and cookies and ice cream more than chocolate bars. But I have occasional instant reactions to pure chocolate. My tongue or the side of my cheek will develop a bleb in seconds. And twice, years ago, the same type or organic dark chocolate from Trader Joe’s gave me a kind of food poisoning–though I didn’t put two and two together right away. That was one of the occasions when a dose of Progest-E detoxed me within one minute. Quite an amazing little thing to happen. And it has happened a couple of other times, too. Once was for tuna poisoning. I haven’t eaten tuna since. But I still go for chocolate. I mean, hey, I’ll take the risk. I always remember Ray’s citing the oldest person on record, the French woman who ate a kilo of chocolate a week. My mother, who was a chocoholic, could eat almost a whole box of Russell Stover nuts and chewy and feel great. She would brag that she could clean the whole house afterward, it gave her such energy.
I wonder if your reaction to the chocolate from Trader Joe’s and the tuna might be related to heavy metals possibly? <span class=”atwho-inserted” contenteditable=”false” data-atwho-at-query=”@Lilac”>@Lilac</span> There has been some discussion on cocao containing high levels of heavy metal contamination from the past couple of years. I wonder if anyone might have some data to verify or refute this claim?
If lead safe mama heavy metal testing is legit, every chocolate product they have tested has had concerning levels of heavy metals.
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