Chocolate Gorging Linked To Opium Chemical In Brain
A new brain study suggests an opium-like chemical may drive the urge to gorge on chocolate candy and similar fatty and sweet treats. Researchers discovered this when they gave rats an artificial boost with a drug that went straight to a brain region called the neostriatum: it caused the animals to eat twice the amount of M&Ms they would otherwise have eaten…
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Chocolate Gorging Linked To Opium Chemical In Brain
September 21, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: animals, brain-region, drive-the-urge, eat-twice, neostriatum, study-suggests, urge, went-straight
