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Filed under: Science, Chocolate, Europe, Italy, Health & Medical 
Do you know anyone who is a chocoholic? Do they long to be cured of this disease? I say this is blasphemy, but some Italian researchers think they've found a cure for all those chocoholics out there.
The researchers set up lab tests that supposedly demonstrated how rats became chemically addicted to chocolate. I'm not sure, but they somehow hit upon trying a "anti obesity" drug called rimonabant. The drug reduced the craving in the rats dramatically. One of the researchers "suggested pills that act on the nerve receptor targeted by rimonabant might cut out chocolate cravings altogether."
The diet drug isn't available in the US, but in Europe it is for use only in conjunction with diet and exercise. I don't know if it will ever be approved for use in combating chocoholism, but I personally hope that will never happen.
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