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Old 10-15-2007, 08:24 AM   #31
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chocolate men anyone? *runs away giggling*
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Old 10-15-2007, 08:44 AM   #32
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On a positive note...Wispa's are back!!! Yay!!
I loved Wispa Gold. The nicest caramel bar possibly ever. Most of the Wispa's seem to be gone though!
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Old 10-15-2007, 12:49 PM   #33
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They are hard to get hold of and it seems it's only for a limited time that they are re-releasing them. I like that they kept the original wrapping. It looks identical to the bar from when we were kids.


I loved the Wispa Mint. I don't remember the Gold one but then again, am not a big fan of chocolate but even less of a fan of caramel.
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Old 10-15-2007, 04:20 PM   #34
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Hee hee! Where'd you get the retro pic?
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Old 10-15-2007, 05:47 PM   #35
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Google! Now I have a craving for a wispa!
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Old 10-15-2007, 10:39 PM   #36
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There was a study that showed people who crave choclate everyday have different intestinal bacteria than people who don't carve chocolate as much. My boyfriend craves choclate everyday...me not so much. prety cool info.
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Old 10-16-2007, 12:36 PM   #37
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To be honest - I never crave chocolate. I'm not even a big fan of chocolate. I will still eat it but I'm fussy with chocolate. I would never choose it if there were a non-chocolate alternative available. If it became extinct tomorrow, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.
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Old 10-16-2007, 02:00 PM   #38
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Your cravings/lack of cravings are explained by scientists below. As for why we crave music by Jewel, research so far does not link any bacteria.

Scientists explain chocolate cravings

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Fri Oct 12, 4:34 AM ET


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.
That may be the case for other foods, too. The idea could eventually lead to treating some types of obesity by changing the composition of the trillions of bacteria occupying the intestines and stomach, said Sunil Kochhar, co-author of the study. It appears Friday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Proteome Research.
Kochhar is in charge of metabolism research at the Nestle Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. The food conglomerate Nestle SA paid for the study. But this isn't part of an effort to convert a few to the dark side (or even milk) side of cocoa, Kocchar said.
In fact, the study was delayed because it took a year for the researchers to find 11 men who don't eat chocolate.
Kochhar compared the blood and urine of those 11 men, who he jokingly called "weird" for their indifference to chocolate, to 11 similar men who ate chocolate daily. They were all healthy, not obese, and were fed the same food for five days.
The researchers examined the byproducts of metabolism in their blood and urine and found that a dozen substances were significantly different between the two groups. For example, the amino acid glycine was higher in chocolate lovers, while taurine (an active ingredient in energy drinks) was higher in people who didn't eat chocolate. Also chocolate lovers had lower levels of the bad cholesterol, LDL.
The levels of several of the specific substances that were different in the two groups are known to be linked to different types of bacteria, Kochhar said.
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.
How gut bacteria affect people is a hot field of scientific research.
Past studies have shown that intestinal bacteria change when people lose weight, said Dr. Sam Klein, an obesity expert and professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.
Since bacteria interact with what you eat, it is logical to think that there is a connection between those microbes and desires for certain foods, said Klein, who wasn't part of Kochhar's study.
Kochhar's research makes so much sense that people should have thought of it earlier, said J. Bruce German, professor of food chemistry at the University of California Davis. While five outside scientists thought the study was intriguing, Dr. Richard Bergman at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, had concerns about the accuracy of the initial division of the men into groups that wanted chocolate or were indifferent to it.
What matters to Kochhar is where the research could lead.
Kochhar said the relationship between food, people and what grows in their gut is important for the future: "If we understand the relationship, then we can find ways to nudge it in the right direction."
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No bacteria with Jewel but Im sure listeing to her music has something to do with the music stimulating the brain and releasing oxytocin (the "feel good hormone")...further studies must be conducted I'm looking for suitable test subjects.....
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haha and yes kiera i'm the same way too about chocolate
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No bacteria with Jewel but Im sure listeing to her music has something to do with the music stimulating the brain and releasing oxytocin (the "feel good hormone")...further studies must be conducted I'm looking for suitable test subjects.....
LOL - that's the same hormone that stimulate labour! I'm hoping to have plenty of that roaming around my body in a few weeks time. It can also be administered to induce labour though I'd prefer to do that on my own.

Wouldn't have thought it would be a 'feel good hormone' in that context. LOL
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