Chocolate makes you smarter, study suggests

Question 1

            a) FALSE “initially looking at the relationship between people's blood pressure and brain performance”

            b) TRUE “the study presented a unique opportunity to examine the effects of chocolate on the brain, using a large sample size”

            c) TRUE ”studies have shown that food containing nutrients called flavanols, such as chocolate, improves brain function”

            d) FALSE ”Mr Elias stressed they weren't suggesting people stuffed their faces with chocolate bars all week”

Question 2

            a) Eating chocolate protect our hearts as it lowers the risk of suffering a heart attack. In addition, our skin is protected from the sun radiation. This last study suggests that our memory and thinking are also improved. It also helps us in our daily activities.

            b) Mr Ellias advices us not to eat too much chocolate to improve our brain function and to follow a healthy diet at any time.

Question 3

a)    scores

b)    unique

c)    tasks

            d)  to ward off

            e)  guilty

Question 4

a)    Reseachers have also found that eating chocolate helps ward off memory loss.

b)    Georgina Crichton, who is a nutrition researcher, recognised the study presented a unique opportunity.

c)    If the researchers hadn't examined the scores on cognitive tests, they wouldn't have found  that eating chocolate was strongly linked to superior brain function.