"NHS Lanarkshire dietician and other advice"

This has been a second time I have been advised by NHS health professionals to use a chocolate as a first option.

I feel like everywhere in news you hear how kids in Scotland are overweight yet NHS recommends chocolate.

The first time it happened was visit from a childsmile nurse about 2 years ago. She said its better for their teeth to give children chocolate rather than rasins as there is less possibility to get stuck to teeth. I get that point but advice to give chocolate? I still rather give rasins than chocolate.

Second time happened within the last month. I have got letter from my peditrician and attached is a iron deficiency in children leaflet produced by Lanarkshire pediatric group form May 2011 edit. 

Fatty/sugary foods as group, first source of iron is listed chocolate. 

I think I you are going to list a chocolate then you should say it is a dark chocolate with content of cocoa powder above 80%. I don't think that many parents will go and look for darm chocolate but it is misleading as they will probably go for white or milk chocolate where there is hardly any cocoa powder. But yet again with everywhere in news hearing how kids are overweight etc NHS gives as one of the main options chocolate saying to parent it's ok to give your kids these kind of things.

I think this should be reviewed and considered or edited to give better information than generic chocolate.