Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates
N Engl J Med 2012; 367:1562-1564

Chocolate consumption could hypothetically improve cognitive function not only in individuals but in whole populations. Could there be a correlation between a country’s level of chocolate consumption and its total number of Nobel laureates per capita?

Dr. Frank H. Messerli, of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University, writes of the cognitive benefits of chocolate and the linear correlation he found between chocolate consumption and the number of Nobel Prize winners in 23 countries. Read the article, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on October 18, 2012.

What’s your chocolate consumption?