Cocoa compound increases brain blood flow

From San Francisco, at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Cocoa that retains compounds usually removed to soften the product’s flavor can significantly improve blood flow to the brain, say researchers. The finding could eventually lead to treatments for a variety of ills, including strokes and dementia.

Since the early 1990s, Norman Hollenberg of Harvard Medical School in Boston and his colleagues have been studying the Kuna, native people that live on islands off the Caribbean coast of Panama.