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From: Michael Dowell [mailto:Michael.Dowell@HALLIBURTON.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 3:15 PM
To: Bill/Jody Dowell (E-mail); Bonnie Derrett (E-mail); Home (E-mail);
Warren/Anne Holmgreen (E-mail); Raymond Soliz; Perry & Karen Taylor
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Subject: New Facts About Chocolate...



> New Facts About Chocolate...
> 
> I thought you could learn a few new things about chocolate.
> Chocolate is a vegetable. How, you ask? Chocolate is derived from cacao
> beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar
> BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus,
> chocolate is a vegetable.
> 
> 
> To go one step farther, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is
> dairy. So candy bars are a health food.
> 
> 
> Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all
> count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
> 
> 
> The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot
> car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
> 
> 
> Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off
> your appetite, and you'll eat less.
> 
> 
> If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge.
> Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to
> protect themselves.
> 
> 
> If you eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, the
> calories actually counteract each other.
> 
> 
> Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger.
> Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.
> 
> 
> Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That
> way, at least you'll get one thing done.
> 
> 
> A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories
> in
> one place. Now, isn't that handy?
> 
> 
> If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if
> you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?
> 
> 
> If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An
> entire garment industry would be devastated. You can't let that happen,
> can
> you?!
> 
> 
>