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Remember where your car is parked — with chocolate?

December 1, 2009
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Remember where your car is parked — with chocolate?

There is so much hype about chocolate, and for good reason.  It makes most of us feel good, probably in part by liberating dopamine in the brain – the signal that indicates a pleasurable, or rewarding choice.  Its caffeine helps us to wake up, and there is quite a bit of it.  Chocolate is...
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Do Flavonoids Slow Cognitive Decline?

November 24, 2009
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Do Flavonoids Slow Cognitive Decline?

Flavonoids are compounds found in plants.  Their functions include providing pigmentation — especially yellow, red and blue tones — and also protecting against the attacks of insects and microbes.  Remarkably, they have numerous beneficial effects on the human body and mind as well.  A recent study in the American Journal of Epidemiology (Letenneur et...
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