Chocolate more exciting than kissing


	Chocolate more exciting than kissing

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4-16-2007 11:20 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6f66b4a9-b835-42f4-b145-04e36d20cf11/35F4EE55-C089-419A-B1E6-9DFA356C319F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/chocolate-gives-bigger-buzz-than-kissing-$1076752.htm" href="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/chocolate-gives-bigger-buzz-than-kissing-$1076752.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.inthenews.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/chocolate-gives-bigger-buzz-than-kissing-$1076752.htm">Eating chocolate is more exciting for people in relationships than kissing, a new study has found.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/chocolate-gives-bigger-buzz-than-kissing-$1076752.htm">Romantically-attached couples taking part in the study were analysed as they ate dark chocolate and when they kissed.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/chocolate-gives-bigger-buzz-than-kissing-$1076752.htm">Their responses were gauged through heart monitors and brain scans.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/chocolate-gives-bigger-buzz-than-kissing-$1076752.htm">At the point that chocolate melted on tongues, all regions of the brain received a boost far more intense and longer-lasting than that created by kissing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/chocolate-gives-bigger-buzz-than-kissing-$1076752.htm">And although kissing did get people's hearts racing, the scientists found that chocolate had a bigger impact; in some people increasing beats from a resting rate of about 60 beats per minute to 140 per minute.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/chocolate-gives-bigger-buzz-than-kissing-$1076752.htm">Women may be held to be the biggest chocolate fans, but the study found that it had the same impact on both sexes.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/chocolate-gives-bigger-buzz-than-kissing-$1076752.htm">Lead author Dr David Lewis, a psychologist formerly of the University of Sussex who now works for the Mind Lab, said that the results "really surprised and intrigued us".</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/35F4EE55-C089-419A-B1E6-9DFA356C319F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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