Hot chocolate can improve mental health, research suggests

A new study has indicated that drinking two cups of hot chocolate can help stave off Alzheimer’s and boost memory in elderly people by nearly one-third. The study, conducted by Harvard Medical School in Boston, saw 60 volunteers drink two cups of hot chocolate a day for a month, after which memory and thinking skills were tested. At the end, an 8.3% improvement in blood flow to the working areas of the brain was recorded with recall times falling from an average of 167 seconds to 116 seconds. The results are thought to be due to chocolate’s ability to increase