Chocolate: Tasty pick-me-up or placebo?
CultureTulsa-area chocolatiers aren’t buying into research linking beloved confection and depression

BY CARY ASPINWALL - Tulsa World
Published: May 18, 2010

TULSA — Chocolate has been tied to sex, romance, sin, decadence — and now depression.


Christine Joseph of Nouveau Atelier de Chocolat in her shop on Main Street in Broken Arrow. Photo by TOM GILBERT, Tulsa World

A study recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that adults with symptoms of severe depression ate more than twice the amount of chocolate per month as adults who were not depressed.

The study confirms long-held suspicions that eating chocolate is something that people do when they are feeling down, said authors of the study at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Eating more chocolate did not help subjects overcome their depressed mood on average, researchers said.

It’s hard to imagine anyone being depressed after walking into Nouveau Atelier de Chocolat, Christine Joseph’s cheerful chocolate shop in downtown Broken Arrow.

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