Countries whose population consumes a lot of milk and dairy products can boast a large number of Nobel Prize winners. This relationship was discovered by scientists at the Royal Hospital in Gloucester, UK.
Researchers analyzed 2007 milk consumption data in 22 countries and found that Sweden was the country with the highest milk and dairy products (340 kg per year per person), as well as the highest Nobel Prize laureates - 33 each 10 million people.
Switzerland is only slightly behind - 300 kg per year per person and 32 Nobel Prize winners per 10 million people.
The Chinese consume the least milk and dairy products - only 25 kg per year per person. In the same country was the lowest level of Nobel Prize winners.
The following interesting pattern was also revealed - as soon as the amount of consumed milk and dairy products in the country reaches 352 kg per year per person, the growth in the number of winners of the Nobel Prize stops.
Higher milk consumption may be due to a strong education system in the country, the authors suggested. But they also do not exclude the fact that vitamin D, found in milk, can increase mental abilities.
Thus, in order to improve our chances in the fight for the Nobel Prize, we must not only eat more chocolate, whose flavonoids, as is already known, increase mental abilities, but also drink more milk, too.
