Chocolate – Chemical Happiness

Food for a better mood - Food Gypsy

There’s a reason we gift chocolate at Valentine’s Day.  Besides being one of nature’s most perfect foods, from a chemical perspective, a new study finds that chocolate and some of our other favorite flavours, have structural similarities to valproic acid, a chemical found in mood enhancing drugs. Valproic acid is used in anticonvulsant mood-stabilizing drug, treating patients with everything from epilepsy […]