authfriend wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> authfriend wrote:
>>
>>> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Jeff Fischer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> --- In [email protected], "Hagen J. Holtz"
>>>>> <hagen.j.holtz@> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Vegetarians are more intelligent.
>>>>>
>>>>> How many here are vegetarians? Vegans?
>>>>> I'm not.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Studies like these don't take into account biochemical
>>>> individuality and should be disregarded as a reason for
>>>> anyone to switch their diet. Go by ayurveda or metabolic
>>>> typing instead.
>>>>
>>> The point of the study was that more intelligent
>>> people are more likely to chose to be vegetarians,
>>> not that being a vegetarian makes you more
>>> intelligent.
>>>
>> That's how you construe the article but I see nothing
>> that says that.
>>
>
> Read it again:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/y6hj8h
>
> Here's another article on the same study:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yljk43
>
I was referring to the first article and found a few minutes ago when
looking at Yahoo. I think the Yahoo byline is a little misleading and
would dispute that is the point of the research but that it was one
theory expounded.
>
>
>> Truly intelligent people seek the correct diet for their body.
>>
>
> Right. The study looked only at vegetarians vs.
> non-vegetarians, but it found that the vegetarians
> had been more intelligent as children than the
> nonvegetarians.
>
> As I said, it wasn't about trying to convince
> people to become vegetarians so they would be
> more intelligent. The vegetarians were more
> intelligent to start with, as children.
>
>
Yes but some people will use it as an excuse and wind up sick as a result.
