访谈录 2014-11-04&11-06 研究显示巧克力可抵抗老年人记忆衰退

 A new study finds a compound in chocolate called flavanol can help reverse memory loss in older adults. Our doctor B talked about this now., which is the first study which he said is found by Mars and Paul and of course they make chocolate bars. But still there is some promise here. 

 

Yes, there is. I mean this is interesting. it’s promising¹. Mike, my confession², I am a big chocolate eater. I love chocolate. Yeah, well, we will get to that. They’vae been looking for years for ways to reverse or prevent that age associated declining memory. We all have that. We forget things. And they found that animals that ate flavanols, this compound that’s in chocolate, hitting increased blood flow into the part of the brain that’s related to memory. Animals were effective. So they tried it on people, small group of people and they’ve found people who have high diet take in flavanols, they remembered more and their blood flowed that part of the brain increased. 

 

So how much chocolate are we talking about here?

 

All right. It’s not what I have. I confess that every night I have a piece of dark chocolate. You would have to have equivalent to 20 chocolate bars a day, a day, to take enough flavanols. It’s not the milk chocolate that so many people like. That will hurt you waistline. That will hit diabetes³. (There is no flavanol in the milk chocolate?) There is, but either so much sugar and so little. You want a coco level above like 85%. Yeah, yes, it’s a lot. 

 

All right, what about if we don’t want to enjoy the joy of chocolate, not a fan, but want the flavanols, where can we get?

 

So all these fruits, onions, apples, red grapes, they all have flavanols. If you want to get this, they are all good foods for you anyway. But again there is a lot more work. This is a bigger study. We want to see can this work because you can take out the flavanols and gives it to the //. But for now, dark chocolate is still a wonderful, wonderful thing. Not his much dark chocolate. Yeah, I will save this for later.

1 promising   

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

• The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
• We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。

2 confession   

n.自白，供认，承认

参考例句：

• Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
• The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。

3 diabetes   

n.糖尿病

参考例句：

• In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
• Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。