This is why you like chocolate

by Bob Sassone (Subscribe to Bob Sassone's posts)
Posted Oct 15th 2007 2:43PM
Filed under: Science, Chocolate, Health & Medical

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Since most of us love chocolate (some like all kinds of chocolate), it would be good to know why we're so addicted to the stuff. Could it be ... bacteria?

Nestle paid for a study in Switzerland that showed that, while everyone has various microbes in their stomachs and intestines, people who crave chocolate seem to have different types of microbes than other people. The study actually took a while to complete because they couldn't find 11 men who didn't like chocolate!

I'm not sure what's more interesting: the fact that people who love chocolate have different types of bacteria in their body, or the fact that we all have trillions of bacteria in our bodies.

Tags: bacteria, chocolate, chocolate cravings, dark chocolate, microbes, milk chocolate, nestle, switzerland

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10-15-2007 @ 4:03PM

resi reiskeks said...

As a member of Wikimedia Commons, I have to inform you that the featured image is not from menupages.com, but it is an Open Source image which can be found here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Chocolate02.jpg
It was contributed by an user from China. The GNU License requires all copies to be distributed under the same licensing.

Best regards
resi reiskeks

10-15-2007 @ 4:22PM

Bob Sassone said...

Thanks for the info. Sometimes it's hard to figure out where some pics come from.

10-15-2007 @ 4:42PM

jsmylie said...

Trillions of bacteria? No wonder Howard Hughes went nuts...

10-15-2007 @ 6:07PM

Angela said...

I've said it before and I'll say it again; chocolate
has always been a part of my diet!

10-15-2007 @ 7:09PM

Deuz Augustine said...

I'm eating Lindor dark truffles right now.

10-16-2007 @ 8:14AM

Beany said...

Not only are there trillions of bacteria in your body... there are about ten times more bacterial cells than human cells!

(according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria_in_the_human_body )

11-13-2007 @ 6:36PM

EJBskater said...

OMG no wonder i love chocolate so much

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