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Article: Cocoa flavanols favour brain blood flow
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- Inpharma Weekly
- Article date:
- August 23, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Wolters Kluwer Health Adis International Aug 23, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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New research published in the Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment journal indicate that cocoa flavanols, compounds found naturally in cocoa, may increase blood flow to the brain.
In a first-of-a-kind study, researchers found short- and long-term benefits associated with cocoa flavanols with regards to brain blood flow. This finding could offer hope for the one in seven Americans who currently live with dementia, contend the researchers. In the study of healthy adults aged 59-83 years, researchers discovered that those participants ...