While chocolate does provide calories, they certainly are not empty. Chocolate also provides a variety of other essential vitamins, minerals and other substances.

Another misconception is:  Chocolate causes acne.

This one is big.  For decades, teenagers have been told to avoid the chocolate ice cream if they didn't want zits and blackheads.  Most research , as well as various professional organizations, states that acne is principally a result of hormone imbalance-specifically testosterone.  Diet is considered to make a very minor contribution--if any at all--to the formation of acne.