By Staff Writer

When researchers at Germany’s Institute of Diet and Health revealed that eating dark chocolate can help you lose weight, newspapers lapped it up.

The Mail Online’s excitable headline was typical of the coverage it generated: “Pass the Easter Egg! New study reveals that eating chocolate doesn’t affect your Body Mass Index … and can even help you LOSE weight!”

The only slight problem with this fantastic tale was that it was exactly that – a tale. The Institute of Diet and Health and its leading authority Johannes Bohannon were nothing more than the work of a prankster’s imagination.

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Source: The Drum