I long for the day when these correlation-digging studies with absurd claims will stop.
Eating chocolate is associated with improved brain function
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#12Self-reported chocolate intake? There are so many possible confounders here. It seens quite implausible that chocolate can acutely enhance cognitive ability. Alternative explanations are more likely, although not newsworthy. I also think that nutrition science, which is deficient enough as it is, should not be mixed with epidemiology, which seems designed to detect spurious associations.
There's caffeine and sugar in it, seems reasonable, plus the pleasure of it means more endorphins. That's like three direct up-regulators of brain function.
Well the researchers say in the article that sugar should impair cognition.
Caffeine and feeling good are confounders, as they aren't unique to chocolate. The researchers are proposing that it is some kind of special ingredient in chocolate you can't really get anywhere else easily that enhances cognitive function.
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#13Y'all, we need to have a discussion about this stuff. How did this story make it to the top of Hacker News?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's caffeine and sugar in it, seems reasonable, plus the pleasure of it means more endorphins. That's like three direct up-regulators of brain function.
Well the researchers say in the article that sugar should impair cognition. Caffeine and feeling good are confounders, as they aren't unique to chocolate. The researchers are proposing that it is some kind of special ingredient in chocolate you can't really get anywhere else easily that enhances cognitive function.
Yeah, I agree that they should control for those things...
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#15ok. are you all a bunch of hippos. i thought this was hacker news, good lord
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#16are you all a bunch of hippos
Re: Eating chocolate is associated with improved brain function
#17Self-reported chocolate intake? There are so many possible confounders here. It seens quite implausible that chocolate can acutely enhance cognitive ability. Alternative explanations are more likely, although not newsworthy. I also think that nutrition science, which is deficient enough as it is, should not be mixed with epidemiology, which seems designed to detect spurious associations.
There's caffeine and sugar in it, seems reasonable, plus the pleasure of it means more endorphins. That's like three direct up-regulators of brain function.
Also theobromine
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#18... says a chocolate maker.
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#19in my personal experience, eating chocolate has pushed me into IBS trouble, which i realized such a disease existed after 15 years. I stopped eating chocolate for the past 5 years. Now i am happy.
Brain is a sugar sucker. Eat food which has natural sugar (like fruits) and you still be happy. Chocolate is just one sour junk which sugar added to please your bain (which is the trick). I think eat the chocolate without sugar and see if it sill improves brain function
Re: Eating chocolate is associated with improved brain function
#20in my personal experience, eating chocolate has pushed me into IBS trouble, which i realized such a disease existed after 15 years. I stopped eating chocolate for the past 5 years. Now i am happy. Brain is a sugar sucker. Eat food which has natural sugar (like fruits) and you still be happy. Chocolate is just one sour junk which sugar added to please your bain (which is the trick). I think eat the chocolate without s…
Bitter, not sour. Lemons are sour.