18 April 2007: Chocolate is better than kissing

British researchers have shown that people get more of a buzz from eating chocolate than from passionate kissing.

It has been known for some time that chocolate stimulates the same areas of the brain as passionate activity. To compare the effects, the team recorded brain activity and heart rate from volunteers who tasted pieces of dark chocolate and kissed their partners. Not only did chocolate produce a bigger buzz than kissing; the effects lasted up to four times as long.

And in case you're wondering, both sexes showed the same responses in the tests.