Originally Posted by donheff

Interesting. I read up on AGE's and will give this a shot. I am a candy addict and used to eat tons of chocolate. I dropped almost all sugar and a lot of carbs five years ago and dumped 35 pounds is a few moths. Since then I slowly added carbs back while maintaining weight. More recently (contiguous with the arthritis outbreak) I started experimenting with chocolate. I found I could eat what anyone would consider excessive chocolate without gaining weight as long as I stayed on my real food diet otherwise. For me that meant Katie bar the door for chocolate binging. Worth quitting again to see if the inflammation eases. I will watch those evening wines as well.