In the course of practical research, experts from America and Australia came to an unequivocal conclusion: chocolate increases brain activity.
Back in the mid-1970s, psychologist Merrill Ellias began tracking the cognitive abilities of the brains of more than a thousand people over the age of 30 in New York State. His goal was simply to establish a relationship between blood pressure levels and brain performance. For many years, he has actually been studying the risk factors for the cardiovascular system: the impact of obesity, smoking and diabetes on it. At that distant time, it was out of the question that all this would lead him to a completely unexpected and confirmed conclusion about the benefits of chocolate. However, 40 years later, he still did just that.
The fact is that at the final stage of their study, Elias and his assistants came up with the idea of asking the participants an additional question: what foods they consume most often. This harmless item was included in the questionnaire distributed among the “test subjects” in the fifth wave of the study – in the first half of the 00s of the XXI century. By comparing the answers to this question with the manifestations of brain activity in each of the respondents, scientists found out surprising things.
“We found that people who eat chocolate at least once a week are overwhelmingly more cognitive,” Ellias told The Washington Post. It turned out that the brain of chocolate eaters works faster and more efficiently!
