Chocolate for the brain
Last month, over 350 medical professionals, computer experts and entrepreneurs gathered for the fifth annual Games for Health Conference in Boston and discussed out topics such as how computer games could boost patients’ health.
There were even sessions that specifically focused on the relationship between gaming and cognitive health and whether games can help change behavior and/or improve balance for people with neurodegenerative diseases.
Me – I’m all for the idea that games can help maintain cognitive health as well as possibly improve memory.
And with that in mind, I’d like to introduce you to my latest find – Chocolatier: Decadence by Design.
Seriously, …read more
Improve Your Maths by Eating Chocolate?
April 6, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Addiction, Cute Rx, Food and Drink, Happy Living Tip
It’s a good month for coffee and chocolate.
First, there was news about a study that found that caffeine reduces muscle pain caused by exercise and now researchers in England seem to think that mental arithmetic becomes easier when chocolate is involved.
But before those of you trying to complete your tax returns go nuts on chocolate, you’d better have a good read of the study because it’s not as clear cut as us chocoholics would like it to be. Yes, it seems that the study participants, after partaking in large amounts of flavanols (the compounds found in chocolate), did do better …read more
