Cocoa Boosts Memory

We all know eating chocolate is good for you and is known to improve mood and increase blood flow, but new research indicates it may have an even bigger benefit: reducing age related memory loss.  According to LATimes.com, the key ingredient is epicatechin, a flavanol found in cocoa beans.

According to researchers, the typical candy bar contains tiny amounts of flavanol (with dark chocolate containing more than milk chocolate).  To get the full benefit, people would have to eat up to 25 chocolate bars a day to get as much as the group in the experiment.

The way I look at it is, some chocolate is better than no chocolate.