Chocolate Not Addictive

Yes, this isn't really gossip, but I know many of you probably think the headline is heresy and of course chocolate is addictive. I know it's addictive. You know it's addictive.Everyone knows it's addictive. How else can you explain the can't just eat one chocolate from a box, but instead wake up from our stupor 3 hours later with an empty box, fingers and face covered in a chocolate mess and the dog enjoying the jelly filled ones we tossed his way, but which the manufacturers keep making.

A British researcher who obviously is not married and has never had a girlfriend, determined that while chocolate is indeed desirable, it is not actually addictive. Many people point to certain compounds found in chocolate -- such as phenylethylamine -- that produce a buzz when they reach the brain as evidence chocolate is addictive, but many of these compounds also exist in higher concentrations in other foods with less appeal, such as avocados or cheese, and do not cause addiction despite what many chocoholics believe, the researcher said.

"In other words, chocolate is a highly desirable food, but which according to social norms should be eaten with restraint," he said. "However, attempting to resist the desire to eat chocolate only causes thoughts about chocolate to become more prominent, consequently heightening the desire."

The researcher went on to say that he dislikes chocolate and that anything sweet and prefers a nice curry to anything sugary. Shortly after his lecture and report were given, his mom kicked him out of the house where he has lived his entire life and turned his bedroom into a shrine to Willie Wonka.