Drinking chocolate can desist dementia in the elderly

Drinking chocolate can desist dementia in the elderly - Chocolate is not only sweet and so idol for children and women, but also can be useful for seniors. The research reveals that drinking chocolate each day can help seniors maintain brain health and ward off dementia.

The results obtained after the researchers conducted a study of 60 seniors who do not have a brain disease. They found that drinking two glasses of chocolate every day could improve blood flow to the brain in older adults who began experiencing dementia. Participants who drank two glasses of chocolate every day had higher scores on tests of memory.

This is not the first time chocolate was associated with health. Researchers believe that chocolate has a good effect because the content of flavonoids in it. Recent research revealed that 88 percent of seniors who have memory problems experienced improved blood flow to the brain, compared with 37 percent yan has normal blood flow.

Even so, the researcher explained that the study was too small to establish compassionate conclusion. Further research and larger scale are needed to clarify the effect of chocolate on brain health seniors, as reported by BBC News.

"Care degan brown base will certainly be popular, but it is too early to make conclusions. Nevertheless, the health of blood vessels essential for brain health. We can understand the relationship between blood flow to the brain with memory decline in the elderly," said lead researcher Dr. Farzaneh Sorond of Harvard Medical School.