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1 Depression and Stress Eat chocolate makes you happy?

2 What makes you feel depressed? midterm exam a lot of report sports injuries

3 When you feel depress, what will you do? Exercise Sleep Take a bath Sing Talk to someone you trust Write down in your diary Watch a movie

4 Do you think that eat chocolate will make you happy when you are depressed?

5 Reseachers examined links between chocolate craving in people who are depressed and both personality style and atypical depressive symptoms, with a questionnaire completed by nearly 3000 individuals reporting clinical depression.

6 According to the research,when depressed,1465(54.4%) reported food cravings, with 1210(44.9%) specifically being chocolate cravers(50.7% of the women and 30.9% of the men)

7 My questionnaire M105 Students Boys 73 % Yes 55 75.3% No 18 14.7% Girls 31 Yes 27 87.1% No 4 12.9%

8 Why is chocolate so magical? Chocolate have some important contents that make people pleasant

9 Tryptophan Tryptophan The tryptophan in chocolate acts as a precurssor for seretonin formation. Seretonin is a protein that can stabilize one's mood. In general, female individulas have lower levels of seretonin in their bodies, which explains about the frequent expression of negative mood of women. For such a reason, the consumption of chocolate can be a way to upturn one's mood.

10 Caffeine Caffeine Caffeine contained in chocolate has been proven to have an effect on making one excited and can act as an anti-depressant.

11 Vocabulary Vocabulary Tryptophan n. 色胺酸 An amino acid that is a constituent of most proteins. It is an essential nutrient in the diet of vertebrates Seretonin n. 血清素 is a monoamine neurotransmitter that is primarily found in the gastrointestinal tract and central nervous system of humans and animals.

12 Thank you!!!^^


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