Chocolate and Brain Function
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Chocolate and Brain Function
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Before Reading the text, do the next activities.
Look at the pictures and say what you remember in relation with them.
Light or dark not all chocolate is equal, it depends of where are coming. Some of them have a stronger flavor and sometimes they are sweetened with cookies, nuts, almonds, caramel, etc.
The photo showing a coffee refers to how much quantity of caffeine has the chocolate, which is the same that coffee has.
Read the tittle and then write what you imagine the text is.
Is a question about the chocolate in relation with brain because everybody knows chocolate brings us so much energy but high quantities of sugar too. Maybe this article try to shows us the other hand of chocolate where it can helps with our brain function.
Search the next words and do a list.
1. Words that you know:
Study, appetite, memory, abstract, improve, report, effects, weight, health, measures, people, dairy, chocolate, meat, eggs, breads, rice, fruit, vegetables, nuts, coffee, water, dark, milk, researches, rarely, brain, attention, cognitive, performance, working, relationship, certain, low, density, higher, blood, glucose, pressure, poor, sugar, guilty, fat, compounds, alertness, function, active, amounts, diet, account.
1. Cognates
Chocolate, memory, abstract, factors, general, consume, variety, vegetables, alcohol, participants, different, results, functions, experience, visual, organization, cholesterol, diabetes, protein, cardiovascular, natural.
Technical words
Peer-reviewed
abstract reasoning
elderly
lipoprotein
flavonoids
theobromine
regardless
Read the text fluently and write what you understand.
Always it thought that chocolate is a source of sugar, fat and bad compounds for health but this study shows us that we are a bit wrong, making different tests of spatial memory, abstract reasoning, working memory and attention, the chocolate-eating people obtained better scores than the non- chocolate eating group.
Both groups have a normal diet and they are ordinary people so the study was made in equal conditions. In the results some of them shows better health conditions (high chocolate consume) but this group had higher levels of cholesterol too so we don’t deposit trust completely in chocolate.
The words that you don´t know, underline them and do a list with the next information.
1. What you imagine the words mean.
Peer- reviewed: Before the review
Consumption: other way to call “consume”
Intake: contrary to “take”
Stroke: a problem
Skew: change the results
Elderly: the majority
Overall: in general
Regardless: a bit of something
Diminish: Similar to decrease.
Search and write the really meaning of the words. Do a list.
Peer- reviewed: the process of someone reading, checking, and giving his or her opinion about something that has been written
Consumption: the act of consuming
Intake: the amount of a particular substance that is eaten or drunk during a particular time
Stroke: a sudden occurrence of something
Skew: not straight or symmetrical
Elderly: people who are old
Overall: Including everything
Regardless: In spite of everything; anyway
Diminish: make or become less
Read again the text and write you have understood.
To test this, an experiment would ask people to eat a chocolate-rich diet or a no-chocolate diet for a reasonable amount of time, and then carry out the brain function tests. This would be a way of establishing whether chocolate can improve cognitive performance.
Another issue is that the participants were retrospectively self-reporting their food intake in response to a questionnaire. People can easily misreport or underestimate their consumption.
In fact, the lower scores on the brain function tests by people who consumed less chocolate could reflect a group that was less able to accurately report their food consumption. Chocolate helps for a better brain function and have energy during the day but is not scientifically proven.
Point of view.
This type of study is great for showing the relationship between diet and health. But correlation does not equal causation. To really get to the bottom of this issue, we need carefully designed experimental
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