authfriend wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> authfriend wrote:
>>
>>> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> 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.
>>
>
> The second URL above is the Yahoo article. The
> first article is the first URL above. Both of them
> are reporting on the same study.
>
> 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.
>>
>
> No, that *was* the point of the research. It isn't
> a matter of opinion. See the British Medical
> Journal, where the study was published:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yc4865
>
> "Conclusion: Higher scores for IQ in childhood are
> associated with an increased likelihood of being a
> vegetarian as an adult."
>
> The Yahoo story headline:
>
> "Kids With High IQs Grow Up to Be Vegetarians"
>
> The headline is on the nose, not at all misleading.
>
>
>>>> 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.
>>
>
> Non sequitur.
You're nuts.
