Eat Chocolate, Live Longer?

Mentions the efforts of food scientist Harold Schmitz at Mars. Inc. to lead the "healthy chocolate" initiative in order to investigate the molecular composition and nutritional effects of cocoa. How Mars as pursued patents for dozens of new methods of manufacturing and ingesting cocoa products; Goals to optimize the taste and health benefits of Mars products; Consideration of how Mars has no obligation to shareholders and no need to justify its research; Practice in which Mars has added higher levels of flavanol to its Dove bars in recent years; How Schmitz hopes to market cocoa as a functional food; Research on the impact of cocoa on the cardiovascular system including the stimulation of nitric oxide production.