Dream of the Future: Chocolate as Brain Food

As if chocolate lovers needed yet another reason to indulge guilt free, researchers from Harvard University and Mars, Incorporated, have released their findings that a naturally occurring substance in cocoa can actually bring long-term improvements to the flow of blood to the brain in ways that may have the potential of easing the damage of a stroke or slowing the progression of dementia.  Currently, one in seven older Americans is battling age-related dementia. Read more

Wanted: Diabetic Women To Eat Chocolate Every Day for a Year!

Sounds like the kind of job dreams are made of but it’s entirely real.  Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) are recruiting as many as 150 postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes to eat specially formulated chocolate every day for a year to evaluate any health benefits the tricked-out chocolates may provide.  The chocolates for the study are to be laced with added flavonoids in an effort to determine if the flavonoids minimize the high risk of heart disease associated with diabetes. Read more