When Dina Khiry is feeling a bit down, she (reaches) for chocolate. "I like Reese's peanut butter cups, Hershey's bars, and chocolate cake batter," says the 24-year-old public relations associate. "I feel better in the moment -- and then (worse) later on, when I realize that I just consumed thousands of calories." Khiry's emotional relationship with chocolate isn't (uncommon), new research suggests. According to a study published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine, people who feel (depressed) eat about 55 percent more chocolate than their non-depressed peers. And the more depressed they feel, the more chocolate they tend to eat. Although gorging on chocolate and sweets to beat the (blues) has become a cliché thanks to sitcoms and romantic comedies, there's been "little prior scientific literature (linking) chocolate and depression," says the lead author of the study, Dr. Beatrice Golomb, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine. The study, she says, provides evidence to support "the (popular) perception that when people need a pick-me-up, they pick up chocolate."
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