consuming large amounts of chocolate improves cognitive function and memory

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This piece of news spiked my interest because I've heard things about chocolate before and how there are specific benefits to it for example being a woman and having a menstrual cycle I've heard many things about how beneficial chocolate can be when being on your cycle and how it can help calm some emotions etc. which I've weirdly always believed but I've never truly looked into it. when i heard the possibility of chocolate being able to improve function and memory i though i would do some research and almost hope to be proven wrong as i think this theory would be great and make me feel better about eating chocolate but also crazy at the same time to think Chocolate, a sweet treat vs. more nutritional foods could improve such functions. 

I found an article from Harvard health that was published in 2017 that i will link below that goes into discussing how insanely enough chocolate can improve not only your long term but short-term memory as well this article gives specific research studies done by indivulas and before and after's from eating chocolate and how it certainly improved there memory. how you may ask apparently there is a specific chemical called flavonoids that is released in your brain to give you all this nutrients that is also found in the same fruits and veggies we consume but this was only found in dark chocolate if we were talking about regular white or milk chocolate yes they have flavonoids but not as high as we would need in order to see any results in improving cognitive functions. so ultimately if were talking about a specific piece of Chocolate being dark chocolate then yes my fake news would be proven correctly but chocolate that most people relate to being milk or maybe white then no i think my fake news would be proven wrong. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/your-brain-on-chocolate-2017081612179

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What made you choose this website for your source? The information seems to be accurate, and your answer is backed by other websites, such as Hopkins Medicine. Are there any experiments recorded that justify this as well?

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I didn't know that one of the things that supports dark chocolate benefits is flavanols and all the other foods like broccoli and grapes etc, that contain it. This article is very well supported by research and reputable sources.

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Very informational post that seems to be backed by a very credible source in Harvard Health. It seems that several sources throughout the internet have the same conclusion about eating chocolate such as the National Institute of Health.

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The article explores the topic of how chocolate impacts cognitive function and memory of the brain. The Harvard Health Publishing website has been a reliable and informative journal since 1973, providing accurate high-quality information with minimal bias (https://nytlicensing.com/content/harvard-health-publishing/). The author, Rob Shmerling is a senior editor of the Harvard Health Publications and a former clinical chief at Harvard. There is many studies currently being done on the subject to further analyze whether there is a positive correlation between chocolate and cognitive benefit. Although it does not seem to be proven that chocolate increases cognitive processes, it never states that it does in the article. The article simply states some of the facts from the research that has been done on the topic, never drawing a full conclusion from those facts. This article is entirely factual.

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Additionally, if you are looking to further analyze the claim itself I found this study posted on the National Library of Medicine. It was performed by students from University of Reading (an addition to Oxford) and they came to the conclusion that, "Verbal episodic memory and mood were assessed pre consumption and 2 h post consumption. An ANOVA analysis showed that the DC was associated with better verbal memory performance for several outcome measures of the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test relative to the WC, however, there were no effects on mood. These findings lend support to the notion that everyday available portions of dark chocolate can confer benefits to the brain in healthy consumers" (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7071338/).

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I like how you stated the credibility of your source before using it as a source. I do think that you could have found another article to prove its claim further.