Tag: chocolate

Are you as surprised as British researchers…

…to discover that “Chocolate gives people more of a buzz than passionate kisses“? “There is no doubt that chocolate beats kissing hands down when it comes to providing a long-lasting body and brain buzz — a buzz that, in many cases, lasted four times as long as the most passionate kiss.” Mmmm…chocolate…

Hot chocolate

Come this Sunday, some 50,000 people will be sitting in the stands at Taylor Field for the Grey Cup, their minds focused on one thing–how much they’d love a cup of hot cocoa. They needn’t worry about indulging, in light of new research that shows that cocoa has an even higher concentration of antioxidants than …

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Why we crave chocolate

It’s the season for sweets, and one of the favorites, this Christmas and every Christmas (not to mention Valentine’s Day, Easter, and assorted other special occasions) is chocolate. Why do we crave this unique food? It’s not just the taste. As new research has shown, a lot of the pleasure we get out of eating …

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Chocolate

North Americans eat 4.5 kilograms of it apiece per year. The Swiss, Belgians, Austrians and others eat even more. And given unlimited resources and no worries about looking like a blimp, I’d be happy to eat even more than that. “It” is chocolate, and most people agree with taxonomist Carl Linnaeus, who labelled the cacao …

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