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1 1) Where is flavanol found? 2) What can it help prevent? 3) What do flavanols increase? 4) How many volunteers participated in the study? 5) What have Brigham and Women s Hospital recently announced? 6) What do researchers hope? Answer 1 Answer 2 Answer 3 It s found in Cocoa It can help prevent heart attacks and strokes. They increase blood flow.. Answer 4 Thirty-seven. Answer 5 Answer 6 A four-year study of flavanol. They hope to learn if flavanol improves heart health.

2 FILL IN THE GAPS Can eating chocolate prevent age related memory? Can eating chocolate cake be good for your heart? That might be too good to be true but new suggests that large amounts of substances found in cocoa may reverse age-related memory. Cocoa is the main ingredient in chocolate. The substances are called flavanols. Another study is trying to find out if high levels of cocoa flavanols can help prevent attacks and strokes. Flavanols found in dark chocolate are known to increase flow in the part of the brain that controls memory. A new study published in neuroscience suggests that cocoa flavanols reverse minor memory loss in older adults. A company that makes helped pay for the study. Dr. Small is a professor of neurology at Columbia University in New York city. His study involved 37 volunteers between 50 and 69 years of age. Every day for 3 months the drank a flavanol substance made from cocoa beans. Some subjects got 900 milligrams of flavanol a day. Others received 10 milligrams. The subjects had imaging and took memory tests before and after the study. Dr. Small says the subjects who had the drink with the most flavanol showed much on memory tests. Brigham and Women s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts also has recently announced plans for a four-year study of flavanol. Dr. Julian Manson is the researcher of the study which involves adults. Some will take flavanol every day. Others will take an inactive substance. The researchers to learn if flavanol improves heart health.

3 TRANSCRIPT Can eating chocolate prevent age-related memory loss? Can eating chocolate cake be good for your heart? That might be too good to be true but new research suggests that large amounts of substances found in cocoa may reverse age-related memory failure. Cocoa is the main ingredient in chocolate. The substances are called flavanols. Another study is trying to find out if high levels of cocoa flavanols can help prevent heart attacks and strokes. Flavanols found in dark chocolate are known to increase blood flow in the part of the brain that controls memory. A new study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests that cocoa flavanols reverse minor memory loss in older adults. A company that makes chocolate helped pay for the study. Dr. Small is a professor of neurology at Columbia University in New York city. His study involved 37 volunteers between 50 and 69 years of age. Every day for 3 months the volunteers drank a flavanol substance made from cocoa beans. Some subjects got 900 milligrams of flavanol a day. Others received 10 milligrams. The subjects had brain imaging and took memory tests before and after the study. Dr. Small says the subjects who had the drink with the most flavanol showed much improvement on memory tests. Brigham and Women s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts also has recently announced plans for a four-year study of flavanol. Dr. Julian Manson is the lead researcher of the study which involves adults. Some will take flavanol every day. Others will take an inactive substance. The researchers hope to learn if flavanol improves heart health.

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5 TRANSLATION Comer chocolate puede prevenir la pérdida de memoria relacionada con la edad? Comer tarta de chocolate puede ser bueno para tu corazón? Puede que eso sea demasiado bonito para ser cierto pero nuevas investigaciones sugieren que grandes cantidades de sustancias que se encuentran en el cacao pueden invertir fallos en la memoria. El cacao es el principal ingrediente del chocolate. Las sustancias se conocen como flavanoides. Otro estudio está intentando averiguar si los niveles altos de los flavanoides del cacao pueden ayudar a prevenir ataques al corazón y derrames cerebales. Se conoce que los flavanoides, que se encuentran el chocolate puro, aumentan el flujo sanguíneo en la parte del cerebro que controla la memoria. Un nuevo estudio publicado en Neurociencia de la Naturaleza sugiere que los flavanoides invierten pérdidas de memoria menores en adultos de edad avanzada. Una empresa que produce chocolate ayudó a pagar el estudio. El Dr. Small es profesor de Neurología en la Universidad de Columbia en NY. En su estudio participaban 37 voluntarios entre 50 y 69 años. Cada día durante 3 meses los voluntarios bebían una sustancia de flavanoides hecha a partir de granos de cacao. Algunos sujetos recibieron 900 mg de flavanoide al día. Otros recibieron 10 mg. A los sujetos se les hacía escáneres cerebrales y hacían tests de memoria antes y después del estudio. Dr. Small dice que los sujetos que tomaron la bebida con más flavanoides mostraban mucha mejora en sus tests de memoria. Brigham y el Hospital de las Mujeres en Boston, Massachussetts también han anunciado recientemente sus planes para un estudio de los flavanoides de cuatro años de duración. El Dr. Julian Manson es el investigador principal del estudio en el que participan adultos. Algunos tomarán flavanoides todos los días. Otros tomarán una sustancia inactiva. Los investigadores esperan aprender si los flavanoides mejoran la salud del corazón.

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