Drinking cocoa can increase your mental agility thanks to the presence of flavanols – chemicals that are abundant in cocoa beans. UK and US researchers found healthy adults performed better on difficult cognitive tasks if the participants had consumed a cocoa drink containing high levels of flavanols. After drinking flavanol-rich cocoa, participants produced a faster and greater … Read more
Get active to keep your brain moving: Study finds that doing regular exercise helps older people boost their mental agility and is particularly important for those at risk of Alzheimer’s Exercising four days per week increased blood flow to the brain in volunteers Volunteers had an average age of 66 with no history of heart … Read more
Meet Britain’s youngest dog agility trainer – an 11-year-old schoolgirl who took up the sport aged just five. ‘Dog whisperer’ Taylor Lyon has developed an unbreakable bond with ‘best friend’ Elliott, a six-year-old cocker spaniel, who she has grown up with since she was five. The pair, from Stoke Bruerne, Northants, have since fetched 21 … Read more