{"id":22603,"date":"2016-02-22T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T22:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/eating-chocolate-regularly-can-improve-brain-function-according-to-a-new-study"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:09:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:09:22","slug":"eating-chocolate-regularly-can-improve-brain-function-according-to-a-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/eating-chocolate-regularly-can-improve-brain-function-according-to-a-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Eating chocolate regularly can \u2018improve brain function\u2019 according to a new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eating-chocolate-regularly-can-improve-brain-function-according-to-a-new-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good news for chocolate lovers: eating the sweet treat has been found to have a positive association with cognitive performance, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the journal <em>Appetite<\/em>, researchers used data collected from a Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS), in which 968 people aged between 23 and 98 were measured for dietary intake and cardiovascular risk factors, as well as cognitive function.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0195666316300459\" rel=\"nofollow\">The researchers found<\/a> that regularly eating chocolate was significantly associated with cognitive function \u201cirrespective of other dietary habits\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/eating-chocolate-regularly-improves-brain-function-2016-2?r=UK&IR=T\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/eating-chocolate-regularly-im...?r=UK&IR=T<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for chocolate lovers: eating the sweet treat has been found to have a positive association with cognitive performance, according to a new study. Published in the journal Appetite, researchers used data collected from a Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS), in which 968 people aged between 23 and 98 were measured for dietary intake and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68291,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22603\/revisions\/68291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}