In the course of practical research, experts from America and Australia have come to an unambiguous conclusion: chocolate increases brain activity.
Back in the mid-1970s, psychologist Merrill Ellias began tracking the cognitive abilities of the brain of more than a thousand people over 30 years old in New York State. His goal was simply to establish a correlation between blood pressure levels and brain performance. For years, he actually studied cardiovascular risk factors: the effects of obesity, smoking, and diabetes. At that 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 did exactly that.
The point 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 consumed most often. This innocuous item was included in the questionnaire distributed among the “subjects” in the fifth wave of the study – in the first half of the 00s of the XXI century. By correlating the answers to this question with the manifestations of brain activity in each of the interviewees scientists found out surprising things.
It turns out that the brains of chocolate eaters work faster and more efficiently!
