Chocolate!!

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• Chocolate!!
• It really does make you feel good ?

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How many chemicals?

• Chocolate contains over 380 different chemicals!
  
• Here are just a few.

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Tetrahydro-beta-carbolines

• More than a mouth full
• Mild MAO (monoamine
• oxidase) inhibitors.
• (Similar to antidepressant)
• Influences mood, food intake, compulsive
  behaviors, and addiction

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Theobromine

• Dogs cannot digest
• May go mad or become ill temporarily as the
  body tries to rid itself
• Could be fatal in large quantities
• Babies cannot digest
• May become ill

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Brain Produces Natural OpiatesEndorphins

• Dull pain
• Increase feeling of well-being
• Euphoria

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Anandamide

• Cannabanoid Mimic
• Binds to THC receptors
• But be careful.
• A 130 pound person 25 pounds of chocolate
  (pure)
• marijuana-like high

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Phenyl ethylamine

• Similar to amphetamines
• Stimulant
• Blood pressure and blood sugar rises
• Alertness
• Contentment

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Caffeine/Methylxanthines

• How much stimulation?
• 130 pound person 12 Hershey bars
• 1 cup of coffee

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What do you know now?

• Ahhh
• The joy of chocolate!
• Reflect