{"id":2308,"date":"2019-02-01T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T08:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2020-04-05T08:47:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T08:47:18","slug":"uk-consumes-13000-tonnes-chocolate-each-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/uk-consumes-13000-tonnes-chocolate-each-week\/","title":{"rendered":"UK CONSUMES 13,000 TONNES OF CHOCOLATE EACH WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chocolate<\/a> is a passion! You don\u2019t just nibble or eat chocolate<\/a>, you savor, experience, live and at times, reluctantly share chocolate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In UK, many chocoholics are ready to give up\u00a0sex, coffee and social media but not chocolate<\/a>, suggested a new survey by the British Heart Foundation. The country\u2019s love for chocolate<\/a>\u00a0is clearly visible and it seems that many can not get the sweet stuff off their mind. On average, people think about chocolate<\/a> five times a day \u2013 the equivalent of 1,825 times a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the survey, scientists found that\u00a0around 1 in 6 respondents would find it easier to give up sex, while a fifth of people would rather kick their coffee habit. If these results were repeated nationally, around eight million adults would find it easier to give up\u00a0sex\u00a0and 10 million would rather ditch\u00a0caffeine\u00a0than chocolate<\/a>. Over a fifth polled (around 11 million adults) would rather give up social media or nights in watching their favorite shows on Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The survey suggests people consume around 240g \u2013 the equivalent of six small chocolate bars. In total, the adult population in the UK consumes an estimated 13,000 tonnes of chocolate a week \u2013 the same weight as over 1,000 double-decker buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over a third of people have admitted to waking up in the middle of the night and eating chocolate, and over two-fifths of the population have waited until a partner, friend or family member has left the room before tucking into their chocolate treats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Field at the British Heart Foundation said: \u201cOur love of chocolate is plain to see and we are undoubtedly infatuated with the sweet stuff. From the moment we wake up to go to sleep, this survey reveals the lengths people will go to so they don\u2019t have to part with their chocolate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy challenging yourself to a Dechox this February, you will be able to put your will power to the test whilst raising funds for our vital research. Ditching the chocolate for 28 days will leave you feeling like you\u2019ve conquered something huge and the money you raise will help fund breakthroughs to help beat heart and circulatory diseases for good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have released these figures on the eve of our Dechox campaign \u2013 where we ask the nation to put their willpower to the test and give up chocolate for the month of February to raise funds into life-saving research.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chocolate is a passion! You don\u2019t just nibble or eat chocolate, you savor, experience, live and at times, reluctantly share chocolate. In UK, many chocoholics are ready to give up\u00a0sex, coffee and social media but not chocolate, suggested a new survey by the British Heart Foundation. The country\u2019s love for chocolate\u00a0is clearly visible and it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}