Eating chocolate every day is good for your brain, claim scientists

[Northerner]

A review from Italian University of L’Aquila has revealed that a small piece of dark chocolate each day can actually improve your day to day cognitive ability.

What does chocolate help with?
Valentina Socci and Michele Ferrara, authors of the review, say that dark chocolate actually improved attention, processing speed, working memory and verbal fluency.

The Italian researchers reviewed the effects of dark chocolate on elderly people who eat it on a regular basis.

The review found that, over the course of three months, the chocolate helped slow down a decline in memory.

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/chocolate-eating-every-day-good-for-brain-study-scientists/

 

[Lanny]

As if we needed an extra incentive to eat chocolate: one of the pleasures of life; CAN be enjoyed, in moderation, by diabetics!😛😎

 

[Docb]

Wonder who paid for the "research."

 

[Robin]

I expect someone else will immediately claim to have proved it’s bad for you! I shall carry on eating it anyway.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I thought this kind of story usually appeared just before Easter (and Christmas), not after? I wonder if they got the timing wrong (or if it's just been reported late). (Or maybe the research actually means something this time?)

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Researchers investigating the effects of eating chocolate.
(scratches head) why?

Several possible reasons. A chocolate manufacturer pays them to do it; it's a bit of fun (easy to get experimental subjects) and (compared to lots of things) pretty cheap to do; they know it's going to get publicity (so university PR departments will be in favour).

(My guess is the meaning one can take from it is probably not much more than: people like eating chocolate and (especially good quality chocolate) it's not going to do much harm, doing (in moderation) what gives you pleasure is good for you in a variety of ways.)

 

[Eddy Edson]

The ‘magic’ of chocolate all comes down to the presence of something called cocoa flavanols.

They are a type of compound found in dark chocolate and also in fruits including apples, grapes and pears.

Hmmm. Call me crazy but could it possibly be that eating "fruits including apples, grapes and pears" might actually be even better than eating dark chocolate?

This kind of thing, identifying one food in isolation rather than talking about what food instead of which foods, is just so fatuous. If the only way you're getting any flavanols is by eating dark chocolate then maybe it is doing you some good, relatively speaking, and depending on the totality of the rest of your diet. But if you're eating it instead of fruit, no way.

 

[Lisa66]

Wonder who paid for the "research."

Me! 😛

Now where’s my packet of giant dairy buttons?🙂

 

[Ditto]

I don't particularly want to eat fruit and rarely do now. I would very much like to have some dark chocolate daily. 😛

 

[nonethewiser]

More reasons to chomp on a piece each day 🙂

 

[chaoticcar]

Improved attention and verbal fluency err !! Does this apply to drinking red wine with your choc
Carol