What's connection of women's intellegence with chocolate?one Nobel laureate, Eric Cornell, an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 2001, is a big fan of chocolate. He jokingly told Reuters that eating dark chocolate is indeed the secret of his success. "Personally I feel that chocolate milk makes you stupid. While dark chocolate is the opposite," he said. Of course, he was not being serious when he said it.
In a note published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Franz H. Messerli, a cardiologist at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, linking it with excellence chocolate. Cocoa, he said, contains flavanols, plant-based compounds in previous studies proven to slow the cognitive decline associated with age.
Messerli wondered "whether there will be a correlation between a country's level of chocolate consumption and cognitive function, the population?" But because there is no data on the total available to the public, he decided to use the number of Nobel Prize winners per capita as a comparison.
Messerli study on Wikipedia and download a list of countries ranked in Nobel laureates per capita and then compared with the annual chocolate consumption data per country per capita, obtained from trade associations chocolate. What he found was "surprisingly strong correlation" between the two.
Countries with Nobel Prize winner one person per 10 million people is also the country with the largest per capita consumption of chocolate in the world, Switzerland. Sweden came in second place and Denmark in third place.
The U.S. is in the middle, along with the Netherlands, Ireland, France, Belgium, and Germany, according to an analysis that Messerli. At the bottom of the list are China, Japan, and Brazil.
"Clearly, these findings are only hypothetical and should be tested in trials," wrote Messerli, noting that the data does not prove that eating chocolate actually causes a super intellectual function. It could be, for example, happened to be smart people eat more chocolate.
