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Article: Chocolate Chip Shortcake calms you right down
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- June 23, 2004
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Chocolate Chip Shortcake calms you right down Women who eat
chocolate every day during their pregnancies are more likely to have
happy and lively babies, according to a report from Finnish
scientists.
Scientists questioned 300 women before and after they gave birth
and published their results in New Scientist magazine recently.
Not only were the chocolate-exposed babies happier, but stressed
women who ate chocolate were more likely to have unstressed babies
than women who were frazzled but didn't eat chocolate.
Some scientists argue that certain plant chemicals in chocolate
are the soothing factor; others suggest that chocolate is so
delightful that it calms moms who pass their chocolate ...