Chocolate Fiends: Why Chocolate Is Injurious
An item in the New York Tribune of Dec. 31, 1899, says: “There are chocolate fiends, just as there are opium fiends, tobacco slaves, and liquor slaves. In contradistinction to the exhilaration of alcoholic drinks, chocolate seems to be a soother. Persons who are nervous and irritable find it a food that in a way calms and soothes and satisfies them. The consumption of chocolate is increasing enormously in the United States.” Anything, the use of which can by any possibility make a person any sort of fiend, is not fit to be used at all. Two years ago, in the REVIEW AND HERALD we showed that chocolate is of this family of injurious things. Having such characteristics, it is only to be expected that its consumption will increase enormously, if it is used at all. This increase of its consumption is according to the same law of appetite and habit that causes increase in the consumption of strong drink or opium or any other poison, by the use of it.