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" WASHINGTON - If that craving for chocolate sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in your gut, that's because maybe it is.

A small study links the type of bacteria living in people's digestive system to a desire for chocolate. Everyone has a vast community of microbes in their guts. But people who crave daily chocolate show signs of having different colonies of bacteria than people who are immune to chocolate's allure."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_he_me/diet_chocolate_craving

I suspect this may be one way of saying, "It's not all in your head".
Posted By: Tim Re: Scientists explain chocolate cravings - 10/13/07 07:30 PM
And its a good thing we have a sub-conscious desire for chocolate. Well sub-conscious in the sense that it is below the brain, but in the digestive system.
"Still to be determined is if the bacteria cause the craving, or if early in life people's diets changed the bacteria, which then reinforced food choices."

Tim, you are making a link that probably doesn't exist.
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