Posts Tagged ‘sweets’
Male rats prefer sweets, female rats favor cocaine
When given a choice between sweets and cocaine, male rats prefer sweets, while female rats would rather self- administer cocaine, a new study has found.
The research was presented at Neuroscience 2010, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held in San Diego.
“Human studies of cocaine dependence indicate that women enter drug treatment faster than men and report shorter cocaine-free periods,” said lead author Kerry Kerstetter, of the University of California, Santa Barbara. “Given that male and female rats also exhibit differences in their responses to cocaine, we reasoned that they would exhibit differences when presented with a choice between food and the drug.”
In the study, rats were trained to press one lever for food and a separate lever for cocaine; they were then offered a choice between the two. Female rats pressed the cocaine lever significantly more times than the male rats, while the male rats mainly selected the food. When higher doses of cocaine — more than double — were offered, both sexes chose cocaine more often, but female rats still preferred the drug more than the males.
Do you think there’s some implied analogy?
Giant candy retailer to open flagship store in world’s largest mall
A Dubai-based company is opening what it says will be the world’s largest confectionary store in Dubai as it looks to tap demand from the Gulf Arab region’s hunger for candy.
Candylicious, which initially opens in one of the world’s largest shopping centers, The Dubai Mall, is also planning a second store in Singapore early next year, Sunaina Gill, director of Retail Is Detail, a Singaporean family business in Dubai…
“We are planning 10-15 stores in the Gulf Arab region over the next 3-5 years, with additional stores to open in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the next 12 months,” said Gill…
Dubai is an ideal place for the store, said Gill, adding there was a gap and sufficient demand in the market for a confectionary store of this type, especially with 30 million visitors a year expected to visit the Dubai Mall…
In addition to its sweets, the 10,000 square foot store features a huge 10-meter singing chocolate tree decorated with lollipops.
Uh, OK. If we can’t defeat the Oil Patch Boys in Congress, maybe we can get them to do themselves in with sweets?
