Posted on 04/27/2010 4:04:38 AM PDT by tobyhill
People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, U.S. researchers said on Monday, in a study that puts numbers behind the link between mood and chocolate.
They said people who were depressed ate an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month, compared with 5.4 servings among those who were not.
And people who had major depression based on results of a screening test ate even more -- 11.8 servings per month. A serving was considered to be one small bar, or 1 ounce (28 grams), of chocolate.
"Depressed mood was significantly related to higher chocolate consumption," Dr. Natalie Rose of the University of California, Davis, and University of California, San Diego, and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Many people consider chocolate a mood-booster but few studies have actually confirmed the connection between the confection and mood. And most studies have looked only at women.
Rose and colleagues studied the relationship between chocolate and mood among 931 women and men who were not using antidepressants. People in the study reported how much chocolate they consumed and most also completed a food frequency questionnaire about their overall diet.
Their moods were assessed using a commonly used depression scale. What they found was a marked association between chocolate consumption and depression. And unlike other studies that looked only at women, the link was true of both men and women.
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US Researchers on government grants are nothing more than lie generators.
They regulate chocolate and it’s all-out, open war! >:0
Or perhaps depressed people eat more chocolate because it has natural properties that help ease the symptoms of depression.
I’m happy now that I’m gorging on Ho-Hos instead of vodka tonics.
And nobody ever knew that and survived!
Bullsh*t
When someone is depressed they eat much more or less. Why would anyone believe that chocolate would be excluded from the increased consumption?
Let me edit my own post.
The researchers found an “association”, which does not mean causal.
Study still a waste of time and money.
Government "bean" counters, what do they know?! I go through a 4 oz bar of 100% about every three days, so that would be about 40 oz of the hard core stuff per month. Does that make me a bitter clinger? Let them hate, so long as they fear, hahaha.
Children must be depressed. Who know?
I don’t even get my 5.4 or whatever chocolate per month. So what does that make me, ecstatically euphoric? Even when I was depressed I still didn’t reach for the Milky Way.
Stupid “research”.
chocolate make me happy.
very.very.happy.
“Sleeping makes me hungry. Eating makes me sleepy. Life is good.”
Garfield
IDIOTS! Chocolate acts as a natural ANTI-DEPRESSANT. People prone to depression eat more chocolate as RELIEF, not as a CAUSE. This study would also conclude that coffee makes you tired, aspirin causes headaches and granola causes an irresistable urge to get eaten by bears.
FROM MY COLD STICKY FINGERS!!!
where do you get your infoirmation on women ... need to look into the Satan angle.
But I am pretty sure government grants generate lies, aren’t you.
OK, I’ll bite. Which 0bama administration officials have invested heavily in chocolate and candy companies? It would be a great investment for them. Depress the hell out of all of us and then clean up.
can’t have ‘em ingestin’ more chocolate than prozac!!
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