Good News on Chocolate; Also, Ben Bernanke Speaks and Leaks

Many millions of people worldwide would be glad to learn of the following headline that The Daily Capitalist hereby reveals:  Eating Chocolate Regularly May Make You Leaner, Survey Suggests.  Here are some excerpts from the Bloomberg.com report:

A survey of about 1,000 Americans that suggests eating chocolate may help people get leaner deserves to be followed up with more study, according to a California-based researcher…

While not definitive, the survey “does pose a very interesting question that researchers can jump on,” said Nancy Copperman, director of Public Health Initiatives at North Shore- LIJ Health System in Great Neck, New York, who wasn’t involved with the survey. “Lowering of BMI wasn’t related to how much they ate but frequency.”…

“Chocolate has already shown favorable associations to heart disease, all-cause mortality, blood pressure and even cavities,” …

Also reported today, Ben Bernanke gave a speech, leaked to Jon Hilsenrath of the WSJ, and is -mirabile dictu- open to the idea of QE 3.  Unsurprisingly, it was “risk on” in the financial markets after that “news”.  

I don’t know about you, but of the two topics, I would vote that the suggestion that chocolate may be good for us is more interesting.  It definitely makes me more optimistic about the state and the future of the world as we know it.