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Kids With High IQs Grow Up to Be Vegetarians
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->FRIDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- As a child's IQ rises, his taste for meat in adulthood declines, a new study suggests.
British researchers have found that children's IQ predicts their likelihood of becoming vegetarians as young adults -- lowering their risk for cardiovascular disease in the process. The finding could explain the link between smarts and better health, the investigators say.
"Brighter people tend to have healthier dietary habits," concluded lead author Catharine Gale, a senior research fellow at the MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre of the University of Southampton and Southampton General Hospital.
Recent studies suggest that vegetarianism may be associated with lower cholesterol, reduced risk of obesity and heart disease. This might explain why children with high IQs tend to have a lower risk of heart disease in later life.
The report is published in the Dec. 15 online edition of the British Medical Journal.
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In may be the other way round of cause and effect too. A vegetarian diet may improve the functions of the intellect. A sattvik diet is always a better diet for a better intellect.
Bhagavad Gita says:
AyuH sattva bal Arogya sukh prIti vivardhanAH
rasyAH snigdhAH sthirAH hridA AhArAH sAttvikpriyAH (BG 17:8)
[The sattvik food is naturally liked by a sattvik mind. Such diet improves: lifeforce, sattva, energy, strength, health, happiness, and compassion. Such diet contains 'Ras' and smoothness, does not rot for long time, and is naturally liked by the mind.]
Kids With High IQs Grow Up to Be Vegetarians
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->FRIDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- As a child's IQ rises, his taste for meat in adulthood declines, a new study suggests.
British researchers have found that children's IQ predicts their likelihood of becoming vegetarians as young adults -- lowering their risk for cardiovascular disease in the process. The finding could explain the link between smarts and better health, the investigators say.
"Brighter people tend to have healthier dietary habits," concluded lead author Catharine Gale, a senior research fellow at the MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre of the University of Southampton and Southampton General Hospital.
Recent studies suggest that vegetarianism may be associated with lower cholesterol, reduced risk of obesity and heart disease. This might explain why children with high IQs tend to have a lower risk of heart disease in later life.
The report is published in the Dec. 15 online edition of the British Medical Journal.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In may be the other way round of cause and effect too. A vegetarian diet may improve the functions of the intellect. A sattvik diet is always a better diet for a better intellect.
Bhagavad Gita says:
AyuH sattva bal Arogya sukh prIti vivardhanAH
rasyAH snigdhAH sthirAH hridA AhArAH sAttvikpriyAH (BG 17:8)
[The sattvik food is naturally liked by a sattvik mind. Such diet improves: lifeforce, sattva, energy, strength, health, happiness, and compassion. Such diet contains 'Ras' and smoothness, does not rot for long time, and is naturally liked by the mind.]