Of all the things we read about what's good for us, this was welcome news.

I haven't been consistent with this plan, but maybe will do it more during the winter.

That's the spirit. I'm going to go make a cup of whichever right now.

I was wondering what they were really studying - coffee? decaf? and using hot cocoa as one of the placebos. Unless maybe the Hot Cocoa Institute sponsored this study.

For sure.

Hot chocolate, or "drinking chocolate," is made from ground chocolate (which contains cocoa butter), which is mixed with hot milk to make the beverage. Hot cocoa is made with cocoa powder only (which contains no cocoa butter, and is thus very low in fat). Two cups of "hot chocolate" might put on more pounds and then our brain function would not improve because we were depressed because we were fat, hah hah. That stuff in packets is usually cocoa mixed with dry milk and either sugar or sugar substitute for the sugar free. That's what I'm going to do - buy a big box of packets and then sit here and work crosswords and drink cocoa , and when I get Alzheimer's in spite of it, I'll figure I didn't drink enough hot cocoa.

Permission to have chocolate - a dream come true.

I get up and make hot buttered rum when I can't sleep, but cocoa would be okay, too.

Of all things, I was surprised that hot cocoa would be that beneficial.