Chocolate...

[OpenMind5]

First off, its labor day weekend and I couldn't bare not stopping in and checking in on everyone and bringing up a question that maybe you guys and girls can help me with!

 

My teacher heard somwhere that Dark Chocolate (when cosumed...not spread over your body or anything else you guys can think of) may actually increase test scores. She challenged anyone to bring in the proof for some Extra Credit. But I can't find it! Maybe you guys can help me here. I figured it had somthing to do with the fact that Chocolate is a comfory food and some enzyme affects your neuro transmitters and gives you a feeling of Bliss which might fight off feelings of anxiety that you may feel during a test. What do you guys think?

 

Would love some help!

 

Op5

[Tormod]

Duh...prime opportunity for an experiment! Eat Dark Chocolate for a week and take notes of your improved (hopefully) test scores. Do crosswords, for example. :lol:

[C1ay]

She challenged anyone to bring in the proof for some Extra Credit. But I can't find it! Maybe you guys can help me here.

Did you try looking here?

[OpenMind5]

Atually I did try google...yahoo..and ASk Jeeves! But i didn't use those key words that you did! Thanks C1ay!

 

As for the experiment...sounds good. I mean I have a whole year to do it...I will report back to you guys when I get the chance.

 

Thanks all.

 

Peace!

Op5

[Dark Mind]

Later... I guess :).

 

Have fun with the experiment :). Personally I couldn't eat that much chocolate in a week without getting sick... Good luck :lol:.

[Michaelangelica]

“We want to understand the characteristics of perfect chocolate at the molecular level,” says McShea. He had no prior chocolate experience before joining the company, but he knows how to develop an assay, so he is focusing on the quantitative analysis of cocoa.

 

 

study the health benefits of chocolate, which is an anti-inflammatory and lowers blood pressure, and find ways to make it even healthier. “Cocoa contains several substances that may help to prevent cardiovascular diseases like myocardial infarction or stroke,” says Dirk Taubert, who studies the effects of chocolate at the Department of Pharmacology at University Hospital of Cologne, Germany. “Even in low amounts, cocoa-rich chocolate can lower blood pressure.”

 

 

McShea’s interest in the physiological effects of cocoa is partly based on the work of Taubert and colleagues, who have shown that chocolate’s health benefits stem from polyphenols. These organic molecules are found in all fruits and vegetables, but are especially high in cocoa.

Read more: Dr. Chocolate - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences Dr. Chocolate - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences

I would have thought chocolate would have been analyzed 1,000 times over?

"Here is a good idea- lets research chocolate! Her's the research funds, go out and buy this weeks truck load" ?

[cocoa]

This thread is already an old one....

[Illiad]

Yea lol, I wonder what became of the experiment.