Karen - I also get headaches from eating more than 1 or 2 pieces of chocolate but it doesn't hit me until the next morning. I guess we just have to decide if the pleasure we get from eating chocolate predominates over the pain we suffer from doing it. I suppose that works for anything we like. My favorite is the chocolate foil wrapped caramel filled chocolate. Sigh . . . . . and I eat it exactly the way you do. Small bites, savoring each tiny piece, then brush teeth.