does chocolate have lead in it!!?
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Chocolate does not have lead in it. The only possible way for it to have lead is if the company who made it somehow accidently spilt lead into the mixture.  But the likelyhood of lead being spilt into chocolate is a million to one.
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Chocolate contains a neuro-transmitter, seratonin which acts as an anti-depressant. Here's a website to look at for more information: http://chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa013100a.htm
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There is a chemical in Chocolate called Thrombine, it causes the digestive tract in the dog to be irritated, the dogs heart in response to this starts to beat faster. In an old dog this can cause the heart to stop.  It is infact true that chcolate is poisoness to humans as well but we would have to eat 22 punds of it in 1 go to be fatal
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I would think the best way to find out is to go to the store and find a fat free, sugar free chocolate bar and see how it tastes. I prefer fat & sugar added though!!!!!
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chocolate and other such candies
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Not from today's pencils because it is really graphite, which is not poisonous. However real LEAD is poisonous because it causes lead poisoning (logical, right?). \n\n(Learn from history: Tomatoes were thought to be poisonous in the Middle Ages because they were typically only eaten by the richer families who had lead plates. The acids in tomatoes brought out the lead into the food, and when the food was consumed it caused lead poisoning.)
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yes\nin many cases chocolate has been proven almost like a drug\nand in fact many people are addicted to it\nand sure it will make you happy especially if you believe that it will\nin fact i bet a zucchini will make you happy if you believe that it will :)\n\nso eat chocolate and enjoy! its even good for u
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Specifically a good dark chocolate. Every day chocolate (like what you see in the check out lines)  doesn't have enough real Theobroma Cacao in it to give the effects of enhancing libido.\n\nBut then again, I get pretty excited over any damn box o' chocolates
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depends on what you mean by "chocolate" - and just because it has cacao, doesn't mean it has sugar....LOL\n\n****\n\nCurrent research indicates that chocolate is a weak stimulant because of its content of theobromine.[12] However, chocolate contains too little of this compound for a reasonable serving to create effects in humans that are on par with a coffee buzz. Chocolate also contains small amounts of the compound caffeine.[13] There are 5 to 10 milligrams of caffeine in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, 5 milligrams in milk chocolate, and 10 milligrams in a 170 millilitre cup of cocoa. There are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an 220 millilitre cup of coffee, it would be necessary to eat more than a dozen chocolate bars to get the same amount of caffeine as one cup of coffee. The pharmacologist Ryan J. Huxtable has described chocolate as "more than a food but less than a drug". However, chocolate is a very potent stimulant for horses; its use is therefore banned in horse-racing. Theobromine is also a contributing factor in acid reflux because it relaxes the esophageal sphincter muscle, allowing stomach acid to more easily enter the esophagus.\n\nChocolate also contains small quantities of the endogenous cannabinoid anandamide and the cannabinoid breakdown inhibitors N-oleoylethanolamine and N-linolenoylethanolamine. Anandamides are produced naturally by the body, in such a way that their effects are extremely targeted (compared to the broad systemic effects of drugs like tetrahydrocannabinol) and relatively short-lived. In experiments N-oleoylethanolamine and N-linolenoylethanolamine interfere with the body's natural mechanisms for breaking down endogenous cannabinoids, causing them to last longer. However, noticeable effects of chocolate related to this mechanism in humans have not been demonstrated.\n\nSome studies have described a condition called Hysteroid dysphoria, characterized by repeated episodes of depressed mood in response to feeling rejected, and a craving for chocolate.\n\n\n****\n\nthere ya go.
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Chocolate contains methylxanthine alkaloids in the form of theobromine and caffeine, that cause constriction of arteries, increased heart rate, and central nervous system stimulation. These effects can lead to vomiting, diarrhea, restlessness, and increased urinations. More advanced symptoms of toxicity include excitability, increased respirations and heartbeat, stiffness, seizures and exaggerated reflexes. \nCertain types of chocolate contain higher amounts of methylxanthines, baking chocolate containing the highest and white chocolate containing the least. Dogs freely ingest toxic amounts of chocolate if it is left accessible. A potentially lethal dose in a 16 pound. dog is only one pound of milk chocolate. People stop eating chocolate before ingesting toxic levels. \n\nCardiac failure, seizures, coma, and death can result if the chocolate ingestion is not found within four to six hours and treated appropriately. The length of action of the methylxanthines is usually 12 to 36 hours. In dogs that chocolate ingestion is detected early, the prognosis is good. \n\nIf your dog has gotten into chocolate, you should note the type, estimate the amount eaten, and then call your veterinarian for recommendations. You will probably need to take your dog in for examination and evaluation of heart rate. If your veterinarian is not available, you should seek emergency care. We recommend that you keep your chocolate in an unreachable location; an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of ingestion.
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There are three separate questions here.\n\n1) Chocolate liquor is made by grinding up cocoa nibs. Nibs are the "meat" of the cocoa bean. Everything that is made with real chocolate (i.e., is not artificially flavored) is derived from chocolate liquor. The liquor can be separated into cocoa butter and cocoa powder (using some sort of hydraulic press), or it can be used to make chocolate for eating and/or cooking.\n\n2) There are several chemicals in chocolate that affect brain and body chemistry, caffeine, theobromine (both methylxanthines), phenyethlyamine, and anandamide among them. Caffeine is a stimulant but theobromine is not and its exact effect is less well understood. Phenylethylamine affects serotonin levels in the brain, and anandamide affects THC receptors.\n\n3) Dogs are hypersensitive to theobromine provoking an allergic-type reaction that overstimulates the nervous system. Hyperventilation and elevated heart rate are two symptoms. If the dog consumes enough theobromine (relative to their weight), they can die from cardiac stress.
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http://estore.vzwshop.com/chocolate/
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Only chocolate which im doing rite now      :-)
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Copper is a metallic element and I know of no dog that would have it on their menu. I guess, same as lead or any other metal, it could be toxic. Many puppies have chewed on electrical cords (copper wire in side some kind of out side non conductor covering) but I have never heard of it killing them.
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I love chocolate! However, I really don't get your question.
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Pencils contain graphite, so no.
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Use a magnet. Iron is attracted to it, lead is not.