[frantique]

British researchers said Monday they were stunned to discover that people get more of a buzz from eating chocolate than passionately kissing their lovers.
"These results really surprised and intrigued us," said psychologist David Lewis, who led a study that recorded brain activity and heart rate from volunteers who tasted pieces of dark chocolate or kissed their partners.

"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."

While researchers expected chocolate, especially dark chocolate, to raise heart rates, he said, "both the length of this increase together with the powerful effects it had on the mind were something none of us had anticipated."

The 12 volunteers, all aged in their 20s, wore heart monitors and had electrodes attached to their heads as each placed a piece of dark chocolate on the tongue and, without chewing, indicated when it started to melt.

Couples were later invited to kiss each other in the same way as they would do normally.

The study found that -- at the point chocolate melts in the mouth -- all areas of the brain are stimulated far more intensely and for longer than from from kissing.

Chocolate also made the heart beat faster, according to the study supervised by Lewis, a formerly University of Sussex psychologist who now runs a private research company called The Mind Lab.

Some people saw the number of heart beats per minute rise from a resting rate of about 60 to as high as 140. Kissing also made the couples' hearts pound, but not for as long.

Both sexes showed the same responses in the tests.

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Chocolate gives people more of a buzz than kissing!

Oh man is this true! The more chocolate you eat the more often you have to go to the dentist and boy do you get a 'buzzing' there!

[Fenor]

Chocolate gives people more of a buzz than kissing!

Oh man is this true! The more chocolate you eat the more often you have to go to the dentist and boy do you get a 'buzzing' there!

[Johanna]

I can't believe they had to do a study to figure out what women have known for generations. By the way, the best chocolate in the world is made in Canonsburg, PA at Sarris.
http://www.sarriscandies.com/
Johanna

[bobmad]

Don't think these people know how to kiss....
My wife and I do the "Peck" thing from time to time...but we also can fog glasses and windows when we try.

[Whiskeyman]

Must be why I am in a constant buzzed state. I eat about 1-2 ounces of dark chocolate a day. I couldn't survive without my Hershey's Special Dark Kisses.

[Tyger]

If they had studied a little deeper I think they would have found that chocolate makes people enjoy kissing more.

[Kat]

While researchers expected chocolate to raise heart rates, he said, "both the length of this increase together with the powerful effects it had on the mind were something none of us had anticipated."

pfffft. I've known for years that chocolate was better than *anything* else on earth

[**Brian**]

While researchers expected chocolate to raise heart rates, he said, "both the length of this increase together with the powerful effects it had on the mind were something none of us had anticipated."

pfffft. I've known for years that chocolate was better than *anything* else on earth

You got that right: especially chocolate bars and M&M's - used to get them every Birthday, Easter, Christmas, or any time my grammy would get them for me - usually a 3 Pounder heheh

Brian

[The One And Only Dan]

hmm thats sweet.

[**Brian**]

If they had studied a little deeper I think they would have found that chocolate makes people enjoy kissing more.

I think the women around where I live put on this wicked powerful perfume, just to drive us single guys mad Kissing is cool - but sometimes these new perfumes drive me crazy heheheheh

Brian

[james_8970]

While researchers expected chocolate to raise heart rates, he said, "both the length of this increase together with the powerful effects it had on the mind were something none of us had anticipated."

I thought there we anti-acides in chocolate to prevent heart attacks. If this is true, eating my pound of chocolate a week may be cutting my days a little short...... O well chocolate is worth it
James