We've known for some time that Baldman is intelligent, and now we know how he and Waldie keep their smarts: Vegetable-tarianism.
Per Yahoo: Kids With High IQs Grow Up to Be Vegetarians
FRIDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- As a child's IQ rises, his taste for meat in adulthood declines, a new study suggests.(Here's my favorite line from the entire article)
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.
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In the study, Gale's team collected data on nearly 8,200 men and women aged 30, whose IQ had been tested when they were 10 years of age.
"Children who scored higher on IQ tests at age 10 were more likely than those who got lower scores to report that they were vegetarian at the age of 30," Gale said.
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There was no difference in IQ score between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarian but who said they ate fish or chicken, the researchers add.
Given these factors, "we cannot draw any solid conclusions from this research," Sandon added.Another article I saw said that strict vegans actually lost IQ points, but that's another story.
So, do smart kids have something innate in themselves that makes them opt for vegetarianism, or does becoming a vegetarian cause your school performance and IQ tests from your childhood to improve retroactively? Sort of a chicken and egg question, or tofu and eggs, as it were.
I think I did OK in elementary school--gotta be why I had a tofurkey sandwich tonight.
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I personnally think it is because the smarter you are the more inclined you are to actually pay attention to all those things you heard in health class.
High IQ may lead to vegetarianism, but for GOD'S SAKE, don't let your babies be soy-eatin' chirrens, because they may be smarter, but they'll also be HOMOSEXUAL.
Please read this fine, fine piece of shi-, uh, reporting...BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!
Soy is Making Kids 'Gay'
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327
[Please notice how often he talks about "new research," but nary in his article does he actually cite or reference one bit of actual statistics.]
Baldman:
Thanks for the ALERT! Boy, howdy am I ever grateful to know the following:
1. Research is now showing that when you feed your baby soy formula, you're giving him or her the equivalent of five birth control pills a day.
must be why so few babies get pregnant...
2. But alas, by the time a soy-damaged infant has grown to adulthood and wants to marry, it's too late to get fixed by a fertility clinic.
Kinda useless to go to a fertility clinic to get "fixed."
Finally, wouldn't high soy diets, by this guy's reasoning, be good for baby girls? Prevent deviant tendencies, and whatnot? Just wondering...
Something I just read and don't want to forget:
"I drink so much soy milk I can't think straight."
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