Can chocolate be good for us? Research
published in the journal Nature Neuroscience just found that people who
drank cocoa high in an antioxidant called flavanols did better on a
memory test than people who drank low-flavanol beverage. Two caveats about this study: 1) This was a small study (only 37 participants) that should be repeated in larger trials to understand the generality of this finding and 2) You would need to eat A LOT of chocolate (about seven bars of dark chocolate every day) to get the daily dose of flavanols. If you want to read more about this study, check out this New York Times or this Scientific American article. |
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