Chocolate is deadly for dogs, but I do love the smell of it. Every time there is anything chocolate open in the kitchen, I go crazy. It is a good thing I don't live near Interstate 80 in Illinois. A tractor trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos overturned, spilling all of the cookies into the road. All the boxes were ripped open and Oreos covered the roadway. That's a lot of cookies, but not in the scope of the Oreo world. There have been over 345 billion Oreos sold to date, if they were stacked on top of each other, the pile would reach the moon and back.... 5 times!! It is America's favorite cookie and we eat 20.5 million per day. A research company found the effects of eating chocolate on the heart rate and brain activity are more intense and longer lasting then the effects of kissing. Only 30 calories of dark chocolate a day can help lower your blood pressure. Unfortunately there are 140 calories in one double-stuff Oreo, so 30 calories is less then 1/4 of one cookie. Who eats just a nibble of cookie? Me Want Cookie!!!
