What Keeps the Brain Young? Chocolate!
Now this is the best thing yet. We've all heard how exercise and doing crossword puzzles and eating walnuts (or peanuts or whatever nut it was) will keep our brains healthy into old age. But guess what the experts are saying now? Chocolate. How did we get so lucky? A new study just out says drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day may help older people "keep their brains healthy and their thinking skills sharp," according to a story at newswise.com. The study looked at 60 people with an average age of 73 who did not have dementia. The participants drank two cups of hot cocoa per day for 30 days and did not consume any other chocolate during the study, newswise.com reports. Participants were then given tests of memory and thinking skills. They also had ultrasounds tests to measure the amount of blood flow to the brain during the tests. Blood flow in the brain is very important. Different areas of the brain need more energy to complete tasks a...