Starved mice are ready to tolerate electric shocks despite painful consequences - all for a chocolate nibble, experts have observed.
Experts have observed a strange behavior pattern in mice - starved mice are willing to tolerate electric shocks despite its painful consequences, all for a chocolate nibble.
Rossella Ventura, along with a team of researchers from the Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy, sought to determine the link between stress and compulsive food-seeking.
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Britons splash out the maximum on chocolate than any other European country, it has emerged. A Mintel survey revealed that Britons each spent an average 57 pounds on chocolate
Boffins based their research on well-fed and starved mice. They added a mild electric shock to the chamber containing the chocolate.
While the well-fed animals avoided giving into their sweet tooth realising the potential danger, mice that had previously been starved were unable to resist and endured the pain to get to the chocolate.
Ancient Americans Became Chocoholics in AD 1000 Itself!
Ancient Americans might have walked hundreds of miles to procure chocolates, for a new study suggests that the practice of drinking chocolate had spread in northern New Mexico by A.
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The good news for humans is that chocolate would prove fatal only if we ate 50kg in a single sitting.
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