NCT03203824

The Effects of Dark Chocolate (70% Cacao) on EEG Brain Waves in Vigorously Active Individuals

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Loma Linda University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this graduate student study is to determine if ingestion of dark chocolate (70% cacao) will change brain frequencies between visualization at a state of rest and a state of exercise performance via electroencephalography (EEG) in vigorously active individuals.

Detailed description

The procedures include: On day one, participants will fill out a dark chocolate Likert scale, physical activity assessment, and demographic questionnaire. Day two and three, on consecutive days will include, three EEG measurements will be recorded: 1) at baseline, 2) during visualization of rest for one minute, and 3) during visualization of usual vigorous exercise for one minute. The second day all three measurements will be recorded without dark chocolate (70% cacao). The third day all three measurements will be recorded again. Measurements 2 and 3 will be recorded savoring dark chocolate and after fully ingesting the dark chocolate respectively.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	dark chocolate	Participants will be provided Parliament dark chocolate (70% cocoa) from Redlands, CA. The Parliament chocolate is made with cacao and cane sugar. Each participant will be given half a piece (1.4 g) of dark chocolate to consume for this experiment over three minutes.
OTHER	non dark chocolate	No dark chocolate will be given to this group during the procedures.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-05
• Primary completion: 2018-06-01
• Completion: 2018-06-01
• First posted: 2017-06-29
• Last updated: 2018-06-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States