The Independent - London, November 25th, 1994
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have produced a startling new theory to explain why people like to pig themselves on chocolate, writes William Hartston. Before explaining their results, however, it is necessary to put them into a historical perspective.
After Columbus brought cacao back from the New World in 1502, little of scientific significance happened for 480 years until 1982, when two New York psychoanalysts, Donald Klein and Michael Liebowitz, connected chocolate with passionate love.
Treating a group of love-addicted women, they discovered their fallings in and out of l...
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