I like chocolate ..... don't I?

[garote]

This article puts my chocolate cravings in an interesting light. Perhaps I'm one of those individuals with the low-dopamine-receptor gene variant, and that's what compels me to eat so much chocolate in one sitting.

Some people seem content with a few squares, but I will rapidly munch through an entire bar and be ready for more in due time.

I know it's very speculative, but ... could this also be the basis for my family's supposed "predisposition" to drug abuse? One gene, manipulating my response to everything from chocolate to alcohol?

Well, it's probably a collection of genes at least, but still...

Comments

[macramedildo.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. I crave chocolate pretty bad at times (currently eating a brownie and washing it down with hot cocoa) but I'd rather someone shoot me between the eyes than force me to eat Hershey's. I go through a pretty good amount of high-cocoa-content dark chocolate. I've spent $80 on chocolate in a single setting commonly before... but I've never eaten more than half a bar in a day. I know I have the "genes" for addiction, but I've never been addicted to any substance. Regardless if you go the "nature" or "nurture" argument, I should be packing away Mr. Goodbars like they're going out of style, right? But I'm not. So, I don't know if you can blame genes completely for this stuff...