IS CHOCOLATE BETTER THAN SEX?
True, it releases the same endorphins in your brain as sex, which may be why it is considered such a sensual food. But chocolate can't hug you, kiss you or say I love you. So what is the big attraction?
How you eat your chocolate says a lot about you, including how you are in bed!
The attraction could be beyond your control, according to Murray Langham, a psychotherapist from New Zealand and the author ofChocolate Therapy: Dare to Discover your Inner Self. During his years in practice, he noticed several correlation's between people and the types of chocolate they prefer, what cravings represent and their affinity for specific shapes. In addition, scientists have already discovered that certain personality traits can be derived from what people do with their wrappers. Mr. Langham takes this one step further by finding a correlation between your attitude about sex, basically what you're like in bed based upon what you do with wrappers, (candy, tickets, foil or other small pieced of paper). Do you fold, crinkle, sculpt, tear, roll, smooth, twist or like your chocolate naked with no wrapper? Curious what it says about you? This strategy alone makes the bar scene much more fun!
- The Shape You Like =Personality
- The Type of Chocolate You Like = Your Attitude Toward Life
- Your Favorite Fillings = Your Strengths & Weaknesses
- What You do With Your Wrapper = How You Are in Bed!
What about your tastes in chocolate? Do you enjoy dark chocolate, light chocolate or white chocolate? When you open a box, what is the shape of the first piece you pull out? What if you could send a box of chocolate to someone that has a meaning: power, love or sensuality?
Couples Company explores the soul exposed through your tastes and attitudes about chocolate. Chocolate Soul is all about having fun with one of the favorite foods and like all of our features, products and services, putting a unique spin on the gift you send.
EATING DARK CHOCOLATE REDUCES HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2003: There's a bright side to dark chocolate -- it can bring down high blood pressure.
The Cleveland Clinic Heart Advisor -- "advice and information from the world leader in coronary care and research" -- reports in its November issue on a new study that adds to the growing list of positive health attributes for chocolate.
"In case you need an excuse for a chocolate habit," the clinic's editors wrote, then the new study should be of interest: The study indicates that eating chocolate daily can help reduce high blood pressure, the Heart Advisor said.
"Eating a 3.5 ounce dark chocolate bar may help bring down high blood pressure," the health newsletter reported on a study of adults aged 55 to 64, all suffering from hypertension.
The test patients were prescribed a white or dark chocolate bar daily for two weeks. "Those who ate the dark bar enjoyed a significant drop in blood pressure compared with those who ate the white chocolate," the Heart Advisor said.
Researchers point out that dark chocolate, but not white, is rich in "heart-healthy chemicals called polyphenols," the editors said. The new study on dark chocolate's positive effects on high blood pressure has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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