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    Chocoholism: Why You're Powerless Against Chocolate

    The effect worked both ways: chocolate consumption spurred enkephalin production, and injections of enkephalin-like substances increased chocolate consumption, suggesting that it’s pretty easy to binge on the stuff. What exactly causes this combination of chemical and emotional appeal?

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    Why You Should Salt Your Cookies, According to Science

    Salty and sugary foods are the stuff that most food cravings are built on. But what happens when you pair them together?

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    The Best Ice Cream in America, By The Numbers

    Preeminent data analyst Hilary Mason used science to determine the best ice cream flavor and where it’s sold in this video for Bon Appetit. Mason looked at menus at ice cream shops to find the most popular flavors and reviews of such flavors. “It’s not enough to just get the ice cream, you also have to figure out what composition of toppings goes together nicely,” Mason says.

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    Bananas Facing Extinction as Deadly Fungus Spreads: Study

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    It Looks Cool, But Does 3D-Printed Food Taste Any Good?

    Launched by 3DSystems, the leading 3D printing and manufacturing company, the digital kitchen is the first of its kind and aims to be a trendsetter. “The easiest way to think about it is that a 3D printer takes a virtual 3D file from a computer and then builds that object really carefully, layer by layer, into a physical object,” says Kyle von Hasseln, who makes up half of the husband-and-wife team that serves as the lab’s creative directors.

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    Genetically Modified Salmon Is Safe to Eat, FDA Rules

    GMO-modified salmon is now safe to eat, the FDA has ruled. The Obama administration had stalled in approving the fast-growing salmon for more than five years amid consumer concerns about eating genetically modified foods. News: Why You Should Heed the WHO Meat Warning In announcing the approval, the FDA said that there are “no biologically relevant differences in the nutritional profile of AquAdvantage Salmon compared to that of other farm-raised Atlantic salmon.” Critics call the modified sal

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    The More Coffee You Drink, the Longer You’ll Live, Study Claims

    Drinking from three to five cups of coffee per day lowers the risk of premature death by up to 15% compared to people who do not consume any coffee, researchers from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health concluded. “Results from this and previous studies indicate that coffee consumption can be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle,” the researchers said. Other studies have showed that coffee consumption lowers the risk for cardiovascular disease, liver diseases, diabetes, erectile dysfun