Eat more chocolate. You may win a Nobel. That is the lesson of a
new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. “The
author, Dr. Franz Messerli, of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and
Columbia University in New York, writes that there is evidence
that flavanols in green tea, red wine and chocolate can help “in
slowing down or even reversing” age-related mental decline," a
contention some medical experts may dispute,” reports the
Associate Press. Nevertheless, he examined whether a country’s
per-capita chocolate consumption was related to the number of
Nobels it had won _ a possible sign of a nation’s “cognitive
function.” Using data from some major chocolate producers on
sales in 23 countries, he found “a surprisingly powerful
correlation.” Switzerland led in chocolate consumption and
Nobels, when looked at according to population. The United
States is in the middle of the pack with the Netherlands,
Ireland, France, Belgium and Germany. At the bottom were China,
Japan and Brazil. The study only inc