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December 17, 2012

Go Ahead, Eat That Chocolate -- And Have Some More Coffee, Too!

MesserliChocolateXNobelNEJMJust in time for another season of chocolate overindulgence, here's some good news from the New England Journal of Medicine: A country's per capita chocolate consumption is strongly positively correlated with the number of its Nobel laureates. (Messerli, F.H.: "Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates"). So go ahead, have some more chocolate. (But beware of making false assumptions of causation based on correlation.)

Thinking about another cup of coffee? Go ahead and indulge while you read "The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like" in The Atlantic. Happy Holidays! -- WTP

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