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    "title": "Chocolate Gorging Linked To Opium Chemical In Brain",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "relId": "food-and-drink",
            "title": "Food and Drink",
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    "created": "2012-10-03 00:29:23 UTC",
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        "2012-10-03 00:29:23 UTC"
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    "html": "<p>This explains so much:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A new brain study suggests an opium-like chemical may drive the urge to gorge on chocolate candy and similar fatty and sweet treats.</p>\n<p>Researchers discovered this when they gave rats an artificial boost with a drug that went straight to a brain region called the neostriatum: it caused the animals to eat twice the amount of M&amp;Ms they would otherwise have eaten.</p>\n<p>The team also found that when the rats began to eat the chocolate-coated candies, there was a surge in enkephalin, a natural opium-like substance that is produced in the same region of the brain.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/250517.php\">Chocolate Gorging Linked To Opium Chemical In Brain</a></em>.</p>\n"
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