Would You Eat 7 Bars of Dark Chocolate A Day to Improve Your Memory 25%?

At PBS: “Dark Chocolate Could Improve Memory By 25%, But You’d Have to Eat Seven Bars a Day”

For years, scientists have been trying to prove that chocolate is good for us. The idea was based on more than the desires of a sweet-toothed scientist—cocoa is high in antioxidants known as flavanols. But proving those hypothetical health benefits hasn’t been easy.

Now, there’s new evidence to suggest that chocolate dramatically improves the memory skills that people lose with age. When healthy people between the ages of 50 and 69 drank a mixture high in cocoa flavanols for three months, they performed about 25% better on a memory test compared to a control group of participants.

Hat Tip to Kathy Shaidle

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