So, here is the question, what is sweeter than the sweetest kiss, and can give you that buzz while being all on your own?

Well, the answer is Chocolate. Those white suited scientists with huge brains and no social graces have done it again, another report has come out saying that for women, they measured the same level of pleasure response as that gained by a passionate sweet kiss simply by allowing a piece of chocolate to melt slowly on the tongue.

So boys, does this mean that we have been doing it all wrong and setting up competition for ourselves by giving the love of our life a box of chocolates? Perhaps so, but other studies have shown that the chemicals in chocolate can heighten the sense of euphoria and pleasure making a romantic evening more sensuous and pleasurable.

BUT don't despair lads, according to the same boffins, men find the sensation of chocolate melting slowly in the mouth just as pleasurable as the fairer sex, so if she ends the evening with a headache, dip into the chocolates, and grab your own guilty solo pleasure!

Onto more serious topics though, the Australian Black Dog Institute has found that for some 50% of women and some 30% of men who suffer from mild melancholic depression, that's just when you feel down, eating chocolate can raise your mood and help you get over it, it's the same as having a good workout and releasing those endorphins, except you can do this from the comfort of your living room without getting all hot and sweaty.

However, if you suffer from more serious clinical depression, although chocolate can raise your mood, once the effect wears off, which is pretty quickly, you end up feeling even more down, so they recommend those suffering from and getting treatment for more severe depression don't succumb to the chocolate craving, as it can defeat the positives of the treatment you are receiving.

Well, as all that's been pretty down and depressing let me finish on a high note and say that Chocolate contains flavenoids which are known to be beneficial to good health! So, my advice for what it's worth, a little bit of chocolate now and then is just fine and dandy! There you see, the perfect reason to munch away on that chocolate bar guilt free! I should point out that it should be high cocoa content chocolate to get the best results, the more cocoa solids, (70% or greater), the greater the amounts of the beneficial chemicals.

For myself though, I would take a passionate kiss over a piece of chocolate any day! so any of you lovely ladies who would like to test the theory with me, you are welcome to leave your details!