The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of scientific studies to show cocoa is good for you.
The magical thing eating chocolate does to your brain
There's a remarkable difference between people who eat chocolate and people who don't.
Enhancing Human Cognition with Cocoa Flavonoids
Enhancing cognitive abilities has become a fascinating scientific challenge, recently driven by the interest in preventing age-related cognitive decline and sustaining normal cognitive performance in response to cognitively demanding environments. In recent years cocoa and cocoa-derived products, as a rich source of flavonoids, mainly the flavanols sub-class, have been clearly shown to exert cardiovascular benefits. More recently, neuromodulation and neuroprotective actions have been also suggested. Here, we discuss human studies specifically aimed at investigating the effects of acute and chronic administration of cocoa flavanols on different cognitive domains, such as executive functions, attention and memory. Through a variety of direct and indirect biological actions, in part still speculative, cocoa and cocoa-derived food have been suggested to possess the potential to counteract cognitive decline and sustain cognitive abilities, particularly among patients at risk. Although still at a preliminary stage, research investigating the relations between cocoa and cognition shows dose-dependent improvements in general cognition, attention, processing speed and working memory. Moreover, cocoa flavanols administration could also enhance normal cognitive functioning and exert a protective role on cognitive performance and cardiovascular function specifically impaired by sleep loss, in healthy subjects. Together, these findings converge at pointing to cocoa as a new interesting nutraceutical tool to protect human cognition and counteract different types of cognitive decline, thus encouraging further investigations. Future research should include complex experimental designs combining neuroimaging techniques with physiological and behavioral measures to better elucidate cocoa neuromodulatory properties and directly compare immediate versus long-lasting cognitive effects.
The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health | Hacker News
I've lost about 100lbs in 2.5 years... The only thing that I really changed was doing a Keto diet. I've learned a lot about nutrition along the way, and it's amazing how bad nutrition info was when I was growing up..
Is Sugar Toxic? (Published 2011)
That it makes us fat is something we take for granted. That it might also be making us sick is harder to accept.
Got Milk? Might Not Be Doing You Much Good (Published 2014)
Repeated studies have shown that for adults, milk and the nutrients it contains make little difference to health.
Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades
Harvard researchers got hefty sums to downplay role of sweets in heart disease.
Cocoa Oatmeal Muffins
Tender and sweet, these Cocoa Oatmeal Muffins make a special breakfast treat or after school snack. Mini chocolate chips add to the chocolate flavor!
The Science Behind Coffee and Why it's Actually Good for Your Health
Coffee isn't just warm and energizing, it may also be extremely good for you. In recent years, scientists have studied the effects of coffee on variou
Acute Effects of Coffee Consumption on Health among Ambulatory Adults
Coffee is one of the most commonly consumed beverages in the world, but the acute health effects of coffee consumption remain uncertain. We conducted a prospective, randomized, case-crossover trial...
Dietary Carbohydrates Impair Healthspan and Promote Mortality
The prospective cohort study, named PURE, found that in >135,000 participants from 18 countries, nutritive carbohydrates increase human mortality, whereas dietary fat reduces it, requesting a fundamental change of current nutritional guidelines. Experimental evidence from animal models provides synergizing mechanistic concepts as well as pharmacological options to mimic low-carb or ketogenic diets.
Coffee no longer comes with cancer warning—it may actually prevent it
World Health Organization reviews the data and reverses an old warning.
Stress Is Edible. Here's How We Can Avoid It In Our Food System | Worth
Stress hormones in our diet may be a missing link between food and wellness.
The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie
The Long Read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie
The Long Read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze
The long read: Demand for ‘healing’ crystals is soaring – but many are mined in deadly conditions in one of the world’s poorest countries. And there is little evidence that this billion-dollar industry is cleaning up its act
This study 40 years ago could have reshaped the American diet. But it was never fully published.
A fuller accounting of the results of a massive government-funded experiment on fatty foods challenges the conventional advice about what is healthy, and what is not.
