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My parents are from the generation better known as the dessert-generation, and I; I belong to the topping-generation. A dessert is nothing without the topping that covers it all; a topping that makes it all look elegant and successful.

In natural sciences the relationship between a dessert and its topping would be called a symbiosis; both are better off. Kids are dependent on their parents and their love. A child who doesn´t get enough loving will have a hard time growing up and to create long lasting relationships with other people as opposed to those kids who had a loving childhood with sufficient care and love.

There are not many other feelings that are as intense as love, it is in fact so powerful and intense that it shuts down or ignore other parts of the brain. This means that people who are in love with someone loses control over certain part of the brain. These parts control how we perceive our surroundings and analyze our own social impulses as well as the ones that we receive. This is much the same as what happens when you´re high on cocaine.

Cocoa and cocaine are, oddly enough, from the same family, and from cocoa we get chocolate. Hence chocolate has more or less the same effect on your brain as both cocaine and the feeling of being in love. The effect from chocolate is however a lot more moderate than what you experience from eating cocoa -- or cocaine for that matter. A remark worth mentioning is that coca contains the substance teobromin, a substance closely related to caffein.

It has been said that chocolate and cocoa is good for a whole range of different things. Girls tend to turn to chocolate and cocoa when a certain inevitable period of the month is around the corner.

"Any organ is best when standing straight"

- Jarle Teigen

The Norwegian chocolate producer "Freia" has, in their commercial for the chocolate "Bocca", emphasized what might happen when darkness has crept upon us and people turn to their bedrooms -- with chocolate. In other words; drinking coffee and eating Viagra is of no use when you can achieve the same effect from a kilo chocolate or so.

"Scientist claims that the ability to make unbiased judgments is severely decreased when in love"

- Illustrert Vitenskap nr. 15/2004, p. 17

Should people who are in love then be allowed to -- for the sake of argument -- drive a car?

"Omnia vincit amor" or for those of us who´re not blue blooded; love will get the better of everything. Considering this and what´s just been said about cocoa and cocaine it`s easy to see how love actually can make blind. This becomes clear when considering the love parents feel for their kids. No matter what. And this may explain the reason as to why it feels so great when you`re met in the doorway with a steaming hot cup of chocolate and bun`s right out of the owen after a long day playing with the new snow.

It might be the warmth of the chocolate or maybe it`s the love from the parents who made the cup that makes it taste the way it tastes. A small cup of chocolate filled with love.