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Highlights
From early autumn, a number of shops, at least in Europe and presumably in many other places around the world too, are already preparing for Christmas by offering an abundant variety of chocolates, as is done every year
Director of the Hypertension Program of St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University, New York, hypothesized that such an effect may exist at the population level [2]
CA, The Netherlands have been expected by the Swiss-origin author who is quoted in the article to consume chocolate on a regular daily basis, mostly Swiss-made chocolate) and in the number of Nobel laureates
Summary
A number of shops, at least in Europe and presumably in many other places around the world too, are already preparing for Christmas by offering an abundant variety of chocolates, as is done every year. There are data suggesting that dietary flavonoids, such as flavanols present in cocoa, improve cognitive function [1]. In the absence of population data on cognitive function, Messerli arguably considered the number of Nobel laureates per capita as surrogate for a country’s citizen cognitive function.
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