Pregnant? Eat some chocolate!

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My kind of spurious research.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It's cool, though, that Cadbury's is kinda being very nonchalant about it.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"When chocolate melts in the mouth, it has a soothing, pleasurable quality and people feel happy about it."

they PAY people for this??

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

But you could say the same thing about a cigarette.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I do.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Have a big check with many zeroes on the end of it, then! You've earned it.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw this on teletext this morning and got very happy. See, even thinking about chocolate lightens your mood!

Seriously, I think that some scientist-type-people should do some actual research, because chocolate is the closest thing to a topical anti-depressant that I've ever found. (Even my brother agrees.) If they could isolate that ingredient (and take away the bad for you sugar and fat) and sell it over the counter then the ~~worldwide market~~ need for prozac and other mood-lifting drugs would almost disappear overnight.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

B-b-but if it's the sugar and fat wot make it so gooood....

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

But it's not! It's the mystery CHEMICAL X wot makes it so good! Imagine chocolate that made you happy but didn't make you fat! I think that should be the HOLY GRAIL for scientists. Quit all that genetic modification crap that no one wants and do something useful for a change!

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I darent think of it for a fear my hopes will only be dashed..

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, did you read this part of the article:

The scientists said that while they could not rule out other factors, they speculated that the results could be linked to chocolate consumption.

They said chemicals in chocolate could be passed from mothers to babies in the womb.

But chocolate manufacturer Cadbury's played down the findings.

"The chemical in chocolate that is said to boost people's mood is phenylethylamine," a spokesman told BBC News Online.

"However, it is found in much smaller quantities in chocolate compared to other foods like tomatoes and fruit.

"We think the mood altering effects of chocolate are more to do with psychology rather than chemicals.

There are no miracle chemical X's nowadays.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Tuomas, go and disillusion me with the truth, why don't you? And here I was hoping science could cure everything!

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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