After consuming drinks enriched with compounds found in cocoa beans for three months, the performance of people aged 50 to 69 on a memory test was akin to someone several decades younger.
Problem is, if you want such a benefit from eating chocolate, you would have to eat staggering amounts.
The small study is the latest to suggest that chemicals in cocoa called flavanols can have beneficial effects on the brain. Flavanols are a type of chemical found naturally in cocoa beans, blueberries, green tea and red wine. Previous studies have suggested that mice on a flavanol-rich diet showed enhanced memory and greater blood flow to certain areas of the brain. Scott Small, a neurologist at Columbia University in New York City, wanted to see what affect a similar regime might have on the human brain.
To find out, his team instructed 19 volunteers aged 50 to 69 to drink 900 milligrams a day of powdered cocoa flavanols mixed with water or milk. This dosage was spread over two drinks each day. Another 18 people had to drink a similar beverage that contained just 10 milligrams of the compounds.
ltsune wrote:Interesting... now I know what I'll have to drink during the 3 months leading up to my exams each semester!
lol..That would be a good idea if the studies are accurate...
Yeah, you never know these days. Some scientists seem to be nothing more than "headline-scientists" these days. It has probably always been like that, but the internet has really given them a voice. You know, those people who only research stuff that can make a good headline if found to be true.
ltsune wrote:Interesting... now I know what I'll have to drink during the 3 months leading up to my exams each semester!
lol..That would be a good idea if the studies are accurate...
Yeah, you never know these days. Some scientists seem to be nothing more than "headline-scientists" these days. It has probably always been like that, but the internet has really given them a voice. You know, those people who only research stuff that can make a good headline if found to be true.
It's more like journalists take the research conclusions completely out of context, then simplify them to the point they lose their meaning :/
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