If you love chocolate, it's always good news when you hear of its benefits in terms of brain and cardiovascular health. Of course, anything that's refined and processed is going to generally be bad for your health, or at the very least, won't provide much help health-wise. And refined chocolate products are certainly in that category.
But here's a must-read article from Frontiers, a popular research publisher and open science platform:
Enhancing Human Cognition with Cocoa Flavonoids.
It's not an easy read, but it's well-sourced. You can jump to the concluding section that sums things up but here's part of that section:
"Altogether, research on the effects of cocoa and chocolate on human cognition, although at its preliminary stage, converges at pointing to cocoa as a new interesting nutraceutical tool to protect human cognition and counteract different types of cognitive decline, thus encouraging further investigations."
So again, the benefits would mainly be felt in non-processed foods rather that what we normally refer to as 'junk food' chocolate. But it's good to know chocolate in some form may have specific cognitive benefits.
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