CHOCOLATE BY RX

Mars Inc. is apparently in talks with several large pharmaceutical companies for the next big breakthrough in prescription drugs - chocolate.

The McLean candy and food conglomerate for more than a decade has pursued research on the possible health benefits of cocoa flavanols, compounds contained in one of the basic ingredients of chocolate.

I can just picture Willy Wonka in a white lab coat dispensing little pill bottles like a pusher on a Times Square street corner. Take two M&Ms and call me in the morning ....