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Gerald
11-18-12, 04:47 PM
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Eating more chocolate improves a nation's chances of producing Nobel Prize winners - or at least that's what a recent study appears to suggest. But how much chocolate do Nobel laureates eat, and how could any such link be explained?

The study's author, Franz Messerli of Colombia University, started wondering about the power of chocolate after reading that cocoa was good for you.

One paper suggested regular cocoa intake led to improved mental function in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment, a condition which is often a precursor to dementia, he recalls.

"There is data in rats showing that they live longer and have better cognitive function when they eat chocolate, and even in snails you can show that the snail memory is actually improved," he says.

So Messerli took the number of Nobel Prize winners in a country as an indicator of general national intelligence and compared that with the nation's chocolate consumption. The results - published in the New England Journal of Medicine - were striking.

Chocolate consumption and Nobel laureates.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20356613

Note: 18 November 2012 Last updated at 00:54 GMT
the_tyrant
11-18-12, 05:23 PM
Of course it does my friend:cool:

That's why I eat a box a day:know:
Rhodes
11-18-12, 05:41 PM
Nice to know that I am on a good path!

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:Kaleun_Salivating:

Cake from the Time Lady (Mrs)!
http://ananasehortela.blogspot.pt/2012/11/um-bolo-de-chocolate-para-uma-princesa.html
Gerald
11-18-12, 05:42 PM
^Sweden is nearly on top.and Canada down...keep up the eating :D
Cybermat47
11-18-12, 05:44 PM
Time to gorge myself...

OmnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomurrghBLEURGH
Stealhead
11-18-12, 05:51 PM
This looks like another baseless medical study to me. For one they have no way to know if any of the Nobel Prize laureates themselves ate chocolate on a regular basis.

Next week some study will get published that implies that chocolate has the exact opposite effects.
Cybermat47
11-18-12, 05:53 PM
This looks like another baseless medical study to me.

I wouldn't say so because its actually veryBLEURGH E=MC2
u crank
11-18-12, 06:23 PM
^Sweden is nearly on top.and Canada down...keep up the eating :D

Hmm....lemme get this straight. Nobel was a Swede. Sweden wins a lot....oh never mind. Chocolate makes you fat.:rotfl2:
Cybermat47
11-18-12, 07:46 PM
Hmm....lemme get this straight. Nobel was a Swede. Sweden wins a lot....oh never mind. Chocolate makes you fat.:rotfl2:

Clever and fat. At least it doesn't make youBLEOURGH
Gerald
11-19-12, 08:10 AM
Clever and fat. At least it doesn't make youBLEOURGH Well, ya could be thin and clever as well :yep:
Onkel Neal
11-19-12, 09:04 AM
It makes me happy :D
Gerald
11-19-12, 09:26 AM
It makes me happy :DAfter seeing all the nice changes here on SS, you must have eaten kilos of chocolate,:)
Penguin
11-19-12, 12:20 PM
Germany seems to be the big exception: we eat tons of chocolade, but stay dumb. :wah:
Sailor Steve
11-19-12, 12:24 PM
But some of you have a self-deprecating sense of humor, which more than makes up for it. :sunny:
Jimbuna
11-19-12, 02:00 PM
Chocolate is my favourite food :smug:
Penguin
11-19-12, 02:03 PM
But some of you have a self-deprecating sense of humor, which more than makes up for it. :sunny:

Being fat and uneducated, our only chance to get a Fräulein to notice us is to make them laugh. That's why our humor is so famous, as proven by history (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=U-jA4MV5xQQ#t=422s).
hohohoho, peanut! :har:
Jimbuna
11-19-12, 02:23 PM
LOL :)
CCIP
11-19-12, 02:49 PM
I consumed a whole bar of 90% dark chocolate yesterday :D

Although that's sort of a light and humorous spin on what should really be "being white, wealthy and peaceful makes you clever", to be honest. Not much surprise there :hmmm:
Cybermat47
11-19-12, 05:13 PM
Being fat and uneducated, our only chance to get a Fräulein to notice us is to make them laugh. That's why our humor is so famous, as proven by history (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=U-jA4MV5xQQ#t=422s).
hohohoho, peanut! :har:

I'm scared :huh:
Sailor Steve
11-19-12, 06:23 PM
That's why our humor is so famous...
I once read the shortest book ever written...

The Complete Compendium of German Humor. :O:
Gerald
11-19-12, 07:13 PM
I consumed a whole bar of 90% dark chocolate yesterday :D

Although that's sort of a light and humorous spin on what should really be "being white, wealthy and peaceful makes you clever", to be honest. Not much surprise there :hmmm: Use the toothbrush properly now,:know:
Gerald
11-20-12, 08:07 AM
I like chocolate that has a high percentage .... than 90 is preferred, along with a brandy, it is not bad at all, :)

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Jimbuna
11-20-12, 11:34 AM
I once read the shortest book ever written...

The Complete Compendium of German Humor. :O:

Hey....that's Brit humour :)