Chocolate

Okay, Monday was not a very good day for Michigan.

The Spartans - as I'm writing this, anyway - are having their collective green helmets handed to them by UNC.

The Tigers lost in Toronto on baseball's Opening Day.

And our annual Spring snowstorm - and there's three words you hate to see in the same sentence - invaded our fair state early Monday morning, dropping from 2-5 inches of snow. At least during this time of year nobody worries too much about shoveling it.

For many of us, there's only one thing that can redeem yesterday: chocolate.

Here's nine things you may not have known about Cadbury's Creme Eggs.

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A good piece of chocolate - emphasis on good - has about 200 calories.

As I enjoy two servings per night and a couple more on the weekends, let's round it up to munching down about 3,500 calories of chocolate per week.

Now, a pound of weight is about 3,500 calories.

So...

...in the last three-and-a-half years I've eaten enough chocolate to gain 180 pounds of weight. I only weigh 155 pounds.

So without chocolate, I would have wasted away to nothing three months ago!

[with thanks to list member Molly Rhea's Quotes of the Day via Wit and Wisdom]

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WORDS for YOUR WEEK: "I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true ... but dare I take the chance?" (Author Unknown)

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