UCSD research shows that depressed people eat more chocolate.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that women and men eat more chocolate as depressive symptoms increase, suggesting an association between mood and chocolate.
The study, which appeared in Archives of Internal Medicine, confirms long-held suspicions that eating chocolate is something that people do when they are feeling down.
The researchers found that both men and women who had higher depression scores consumed almost 12 servings of chocolate per month, those with lesser depression scores ate about eight servings of chocolate per month, and those with no depression had five servings per month
Future studies will be required to determine the basis of this association, as well as the role of chocolate in depression, as cause or cure.
Read factlets by:
RSS feed
Email feed
