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Medical [Medical] Eating chocolate and Winning Nobel Prizes
2012.12.15 12:43
Franz H. Messerli, MD Dr. Messerli noted a significant association between chocolate consumption and the number of Nobel Prize winners in 23 countries. He found a close, significant linear correlation between chocolate consumption per capita and the number of Nobel laureates per 10 million persons in 23 countries(p<0.0001). Excluding Sweden, he reported, the correlation coefficient rose to 0.862. Switzerland had both the most Nobel laureates and the highest chocolate consumption. Messerli stated that Sweden was an outlier, with data indicating that, based on its per capita chocolate consumption, Sweden should have produced about 14 Nobel laureates, rather than the 32 observed in the study. One may suspect that the Nobel Committee in Stockholm, Sweden, may have had some inherent patroitic bias when assessing the candidates to explain this single outlier. He states that since chocolate consumption has been documented to improve cognitive function, it seems most likely that in a dose-dependent way, chocolate intake provides the abundant fertile ground needed for the sprouting of Nobel laureates. He noted that in the absence of data on overall national cognitive function, the total number of Nobel laureates per capita could serve as a surrogate endpoint reflecting the proportion with superior cognitive function. Flavanols in cocoa have shown to improve By the way, Messerli eats chocolate daily, mostly in the form ... Cardiology Today, Vol 15, Number 12, December, 2012 |
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Now we have an answer to the perennial question why Korea does not have
any Nobel laureates other than President Kim's peace prize.
We Koreans are advised to start eating chocolates more, especially the dark
varieties(Lindt's) made in Switzerland.
By the way, Messerli calculates,
In order to increase the number of Nobel laureates in a given country by one,
the population would need to consume about 0.4 kg of chocolate per capita per year.
United States would require 125 million kg of chocolate per year.
South Korea may require about 20 million kg of chocolate per year.