Oh, Lord! Just what I need. Another excuse to eat chocolate.
These flavanols may help with memory. I eat several foods high in flavanols; rooibos tea, black rice, and of course, chocolate.
These foods contain many other health benefits as well!
Although I forgot what the benefits were.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/29/health/cocoa-flavanols-memory-study-wellness?cid=ios_app
You might try cacao powder with no additives, makes a nice hot drink. Sometimes I add coconut milk.
The Captain
Who paid for the “study”?
Steve
Only an idiot would print this:
Eating chocolate won’t work
Despite the fact that the study tested 500 milligrams of flavanols derived from cocoa, that does not mean you can get similar results from eating 500 milligrams of chocolate.
In other words, chocolate is NOT 100% flavanols. Brilliant!
The Captain
You asked the same question in an earlier thread back in September 2022 about other results from the study concerning vitamins:
“Was this study funded by the vitamin industry…”
Funding and Support
The COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study for the Mind (COSMOS-Mind) is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health: 5R01AG050657-02. Additional support was received from the Wake Forest Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center (P30AG049638-01A1).
The parent COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study receives support from Mars Symbioscience (infrastructure support, donation of cocoa flavanol capsules and matched placebos, and calendar packaging) and Pfizer Inc. (donation of Centrum Silver multivitamin tablets, matched placebos, and calendar packaging). Recruitment for COSMOS involved a public-private partnership between the Women’s Health Initiative (National Institutes of Health; HHSN268201600018C, HHSN268201600001C, HHSN268201600002C, HHSN268201600003C, and HHSN268201600004C), the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (National Institutes of Health; CA138962), and Mars Symbioscience.
The WHI program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201600018C, HHSN268201600001C, HHSN268201600002C, HHSN268201600003C, and HHSN268201600004C.” The authors thank the WHI investigators and staff for their dedication, and the study participants for making the program possible.
DB2
So, some of the support came from Mars Symbioscience (chocolate company) and Pfizer Inc (vitamin company).
Thank you. Plus snarky comment about conflict of interest, to meet the minimum character requirement.
Steve
I was in the COSMOS study. Almost 5 yrs.