And the Chocolate Pills Taste Like Chocolate Pills

In a novel collaboration, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the National Institutes of Health, and Mars, Incorporated plan to partner on the largest research trial to date that will investigate the heart health benefits of cocoa flavanols. Once initiated, this large-scale, prospective nutritional intervention will evaluate the role of flavanols in reducing the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death from cardiovascular disease.

Let’s cut to the chase here: they’re testing out chocolate pills for our health. I say, skip the pills and keep eating the chocolate, but I’m no doctor. Where do we sign up? [BWH, AP]