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Maybe there's a reason why chocolate has long been connected with date nights and romantic evenings.
It turns out that chocolate can affect our minds in pretty powerful ways, more than we may have realized. In a study of six couples, researchers measured the level of relaxation-related brain activity (called alpha bands) that people experienced when kissing and when eating chocolate.
They found that both kissing and letting chocolate melt on your tongue had spikes in this relaxed way of thinking in the brain, but it turned out that chocolate delivered a more significant spike, and its effects lasted longer than a kiss.
While we'll leave it up to you to decide which relaxes you more, we've just found another reason to pick up a bag of Hershey's Kisses.
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