What? It’s Halloween already? The holiday came and went without any bravado. What a wonderful mom I am, eh? Halloween is celebrated here, but not the trick-or-treating. I think they just have parties. What’s the fun in that?

Anyways, just wanted to tell you about something I read today:

…according to all kinds of recent studies, dark chocolate is full of flavonoids, chemicals found in fruits and vegetables that have positive effects on everything from blood vessels, heart and brain to endurance and longevity. In fact, dark chocolate has higher antioxident levels than green tea, red wine, and even blueberries.

A number of studies (discussed in the article) have shown the many positive benefits of dark chocolate. The bad news is there probably won’t be a lot of dark chocolate in your kids Halloween candy hordes. Most candy is made from milk chocolate that contains 50 percent less cocoa, which is the source of the health-increasing flavonoids. And that milk chocolate is often partnered with sugar and saturated fat.

cool! Send me some dark chocolate! My favorite is Green & Black’s organic (British). My SP8 spoiler (Ingrid) got me hooked on it!