date:Oct 11, 2012
Take this with a grain of salt, or perhaps some almonds or hazelnuts: A study ties chocolate consumption to the number of Nobel Prize winners a country has and suggests it's a sign that the sweet treat can boost brain power.
No, this does not appear in the satirical Onion newspaper. It's in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, which published it online Wednesday as a note rather than a rigorous, peer-reviewed study.
The author Dr. Franz Messerli, of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital