New Research - Like Water for Chocolate?

The findings of this study suggest the brain's repsponse to ingesting anything we find pleasant takes priority over other senses; including pain or discomfort. Interestingly, water works as well as chocolate as a stimulus. Who knew?

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com But the painkilling effect can be turned to our advantage, Mason said, perhaps as a replacement for the practice of using candy to calm children – or even adults – in the doctor's office. "Ingestion is a painkiller but we don't need the sugar," Mason said. "So replace the doctor's lollipop with a drink of water."