Kids With High IQs Grow Up to Be Vegetarians

http://www.livescience.com/healthday/600136.html

 

I like the idea of the study and I do believe that vegetarians/vegans have higher IQ/EQ, but this study is flawed because they used people who ate chicken/fish and labeled them as vegetarian.

"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."

This is comparing people who eat meat and those who don't. I do agree vegetarians/vegans are more aware of what they eat, but there are a lot of vegetarians/vegans who smoke cigs.

 

"Kids With High IQs Grow Up to Be Vegetarians"

It sounds like smart, meat-raised kids choose vegetarianism. I guess that meat did it's job; built a smart kid.

Is there a higher incidence of high IQ in children raised on a vegetarian diet?

 

Uh...huh?

 

The Link says that smart teens are choosing to become vegetarian. Cool. Meat did its job, it provided protiens that became brains.

I was asking if there was any evidence that vegetarianism during childhood lead to an increased IQ, or is a meat diet for children needed to produce the kind of IQ that leads teens to vegetarianism?

 

cum hoc ergo propter hoc.

 

interesting that you mentioned this. could they not have recieved sufficient protien through plant sources also?

the study is bogus if it's definition of 'vegetarian' included fish and chicken. i didn't even read it.

ive read one or two studies about the HEALTH of the child and the types of choices they typically make because they were raised in veg families, but not necessarily how 'intelligent' (as if it could be measured with a test), they are. im not sure that a certain diet through childhood will increase or decrease one's intellectual potential. ive met some exceptionally brilliant veg people, and also some who are dumb as a bag of rocks. same with omnis.

you make a good point Mike, but a well planned veg diet can provide as much nutrition and proteins needed for development as a meat diet does (if not more). so, i dont think it matters either way.

 

Both curiosity and imagination come with intelligence.

Curiosity leads people to try new things.
Imagination is nesessary for empathy.
(The ability to imagine what a cow thinks is required if one is to empathize with cows.)

It sounds like:
1) Animal Rights folks would tend to have more imagination than others.
2) Vegetarians would be more curious.

Both of which fit in with a correlation between intelligence and vegetarianism.

 

It's more likely that vegetarianism correlates with income... Which has a causal relationship with IQ.

 

I don't think your food would have much to do with anything other then your physical health, I do however think that intelligence opens peoples minds, and those who haven't been sticken cold choose the food that doesn't leave a miserable blood torture ridden trail.

 

What? This doesn't make sense to me. I'm not rich and I have been a vegetarian for over 5 years. I think diets with meat and without meat cost about the same. If you're talking about a healthy diet, then that can go both ways. A healthy meat diet would cost more because organic meat is very expensive. Also, there are some foods that some vegetarians buy that are expensive. For an example, almond butter is quite expensive.