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Chocolate: The Choice of Nobel Laureates

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October 11, 2012
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Science has finally proven it: chocolate makes you smarter. (Or at least we'd like to think so.) Reuters features a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine exploring the correlation between a country's chocolate consumption and its number of Nobel laureates per capita. As you may have guessed, the Swiss take the lead. Sweden and Denmark follow closely behind. By this study's calculations, if the U.S. is eager to win more Nobel prizes, we'd each have to get used to eating 120 bars of chocolate per year. (Not the worst prescription?) 

Of course, this has to be taken with a grain of salt. (A bar of chocolate?) Though the correlation is fascinating, it could also be -- and most likely is -- meaningless. We're still increasing our consumption anyway.

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Written by: gheanna

My two (current) favorite foods start with the letter D: doughnuts, and dumplings. If a dish has bacon in it, I will most likely eat it. If I could marry honey butter, I would.

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