He says, “Given the fact that healthy cultures eat chocolate all the time … it seems logical that you should eat chocolate every day, like a delicious vitamin”.
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The researchers found out that those people who consumers chocolate at least once per week performed better at mental skills than those people who consumed chocolates rarely.
For those of us with a sweet tooth, a recent study gives the flawless excuse to indulge even more in our chocolate habits.
Researchers looked at data collected during an earlier study in which residents of Syracuse, New York, were measured for dietary intake and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. They found 968 eligible study participants between 23 and 98 years old. That would mean two more reasons to have some portions of chocolate on a regular basis.
“Chocolate intake was positively associated with cognitive performance, across a range of cognitive domains in this dementia-free, community-dwelling population”, the researchers wrote.
The more chocolate a person eats, according to the findings, the more likely that person is to be “significantly associated with better performance on [cognitive tests including] visual-spatial memory and organisation, working memory, scanning and tracking, abstract reasoning, and the mini-mental state examination”.
In this particular study, participants were asked about their consumption of various foods, including chocolate, fruit, vegetables and alcohol, and then put through a series of tests created to measure a wide range of cognitive domains.
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Besides increase in cognitive abilities, scientists also suggested other potential benefits of chocolates, which has historically been used to treat diarrhea in kids, fever, improve sleep, clean teeth and increase libido. The study has appeared in the journal Appetite.
