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Sweet food and mood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2013

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In a nutshell

There is a relationship between sweet foods (including chocolate) and mood. It is partly related to simple pleasure mechanisms, but also seems to have some biological and even genetic basis.

Current research does not enable us to say whether eating such foods can be an effective ‘self-medication’ for mood disorders. But neither does it suggest that craving for chocolate and sweet foods is a genuine form of addiction.

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Arbor Clinical Nutrition Updates , Volume 281 , July 2007 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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