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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tD33NAt" data-source="post: 2701691" data-attributes="member: 124445">A new brain study suggests an opium-like chemical may drive the urge to gorge on chocolate candy and similar fatty and sweet treats. 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&Ms  they would otherwise have eaten. 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...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/R9xr1wVsIyw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/R9xr1wVsIyw/250517.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>