Today, October 14th, is National Dessert Day.

Go on, have a dessert today.

Desserts are usually sweet, but can be hot, cold or frozen. Even though they are sweet, they do not have to be unhealthy - most fruit is sweet.

Even dishes that would be considered unhealthy can often be altered by replacing fattening ingredients with better ones.

Should you decide to eat a dessert based on how nice it tastes, then one day isn't going to do much damage.

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