People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, US researchers said, in a study that puts numbers behind the link between mood and chocolate. They said people who were depressed ate an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month, compared with 5.4 servings among those who were not. And people who had major depression based on results of a screening test ate even more - 11.8 servings per month. A serving was considered to be one small bar, or 1 ounce (28 grams), of chocolate. "Depressed mood was significantly related to higher chocolate consumption," Dr. Natalie Rose of the University of California, Davis, and University of California, San Diego, and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine. |
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