A new study, published in the journal Appetite, found that people who ate more chocolate had improved memory and abstract thinking.
In 1970’s Psychologist Merrill Elias began a research of more than 1,000 people in New York City to determine the connection between blood pressure and brain performance. In 2001,
The participants undertake questionnaires about their dietary habit at the University of Maine. Believing the research would be an opportunity to determine the effects of chocolate on human brain, Georgina Crichton, a nutrition researcher at the University of South Australia, joined the research.
The results of the tests that the participants who ate chocolate at least once a week , and those who ate it less than once a week, found that both helped improve their brain function.
Participants who ate chocolate more than once a week had performed better memory and abstract thinking. Crichton said ."The benefits are found in daily tasks such as remembering a phone number, or your shopping list, or being able to do two things at once, like talking and driving at the same time,"
The researcher examined the results of cognitive ability tests on 333 participants over several years. To make sure that that the participants who ate chocolate at least once a week , and those who ate it less than once a week, found that both helped improve their brain function or not.
The team conclude their study that cognitive ability did not forecast whether a person would be a chocolate eater or not.
Elias said, "Our study definitely indicates that the direction is not that cognitive ability affects chocolate consumption, but that chocolate consumption affects cognitive ability."
Source; koreatimes
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