Can Chocolate Help Us Get Smarter?

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Did you know that chocolate can help us get smarter and
Can it help us stay healthy? Chocolate comes from a cocoa pod and that comes from a tree. We found out that we could eat the cocoa pods seeds because of animals. The animals eat a white, stringy pulp that covers the seed and the animals spit out the bittersweet cocoa seed. We thought that we could use it to make something new. We ground the seed and mixed it with water, spices, and chilies which made the first chocolate drink. My claim about chocolate is that we should be offered chocolate at school lunches because my evidence persuades me that it would be a good idea.
To start off is, that this snack can help us get smarter, so it would help us get better grades. In Sweden, the people ate chocolate and they won more Nobel prizes that they were supposed to get (supposed to get 14 but they got 32 because they ate chocolate). According to the text, "It's a sign that the sweet treat can boost brain power"(Eat more Chocolate, Win more Nobles, 2). This quote means that if we eat chocolate it could get us smarter for school. My quote supports my reason because I was writing how chocolate can help us get our grades up so if chocolate can boost our brain power then it would get us smarter, boosting up our grades.
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Dark chocolate can help us with our bodily functions like our vascular function and blood pressure. In the text, it states," Flavanols-which are more prevalent in dark chocolate than in milk chocolate or white chocolate- also help lower blood pressure and improve vascular function"(Can Chocolate be Good for my Health? 3). This quote supports my reason because my reason was that chocolate was healthier than other types of chocolate and this quote tells us why it could be healthy. This quote means that other types of chocolate are good for us, but dark chocolate is the one that can help us

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