Scientists now believe eating chocolate could be beneficial for cognitive ability
News24xx.com - Now, chocolate lovers need not face an internal guilt trip every time they reach for a snack.
Because scientists now believe eating chocolate could be beneficial for cognitive ability.
From a review of University of L’Aquila in Italy found that tucking in to a small bit of dark chocolate each day improved attention, processing speed, working memory and verbal fluency.
Valentina Socci and Michele Ferrara, the authors of the review which has been published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition said regular intake of cocoa and chocolate could indeed provide beneficial effects on cognitive functioning over time. It helped stave off a decline in memory.
As information, the benefits come from cocoa flavanols – a compound within dark chocolate that’s also found in apples, pears and grapes.
The researchers looked at elderly people who consumed chocolate on a regular basis have beneficial effects for cardiovascular health and can increase cerebral blood volume in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.
However, there are potential side effects of eating cocoa and chocolate. Those are generally linked to the caloric value of chocolate, some inherent chemical compounds of the cocoa plant such as caffeine and theobromine, and a variety of additives that add to chocolate such as sugar or milk.
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