Chocoholics rejoice!
Did you know that chocolate can help you feel better? First, chocolate contains a natural chemical (anandamide) that stimulates the same area in the brain that marijuana does. But alas, you still need to gobble up 25 lbs of chocolate to get a buzz.
Second, chocolate helps your brain made opioids, opium-like chemicals that dull pain and produce a slightly euphoric feeling.
Third, chocolate also contains a chemical related to amphetamines (phenylethylamine) that has been called "the love drug." It lowers blood pressure, speeds up your pulse, and makes blood-sugar levels rise. Caffeine in chocolate also increases alterness.
What does all of this mean? Well, duh, that chocolate is my preferred drug of choice.
PS - It's best consumed as:
- Berthillon Bittersweet Dark Chocolate Gelato -- hands down, the most decadent, mind-numbing chocolate experience you will ever hope to have in this lifetime (definitely qualifies as the dessert for my last meal before execution)
- Godiva Dark Belgian Chocolate Ice Cream or Sorbet -- slightly more accessible than having to travel to the Champs-Elysee for Berthillon
- La Maison du Chocolat Dark Chocolate Coffret -- those Parisians definitely know how to do chocolate
- Stephanie's On Newbury Warm Chocolate Cake -- the dense cake-like texture is much preferred over the typical molten center of other like-minded chocolate confections
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