Fast Food Makes People Dumber
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Correlation does not indicate causation.
Poor kids will come from parents with genes that are predisposed to low intelligence. Then they receive little to no early stimulation. Then they get low quality food.
And these overly simplistic morons say 1 factor is to blame. Not the fact that they come from low class backgrounds. Not the fact that kids at age 3 who eat fast food come from parents with low IQ. Not the fact that these kids get little to no early stimulation and are plunked in front of the TV all day watching the idiocy these morons spew out. NOOOOO. It is only because of the food.
TV is the junk food of intellectual stimulation. This is like the pot calling the kettle black. And then implying it is only the kettle who could be black.
Poor kids will come from parents with genes that are predisposed to low intelligence. Then they receive little to no early stimulation. Then they get low quality food.
And these overly simplistic morons say 1 factor is to blame. Not the fact that they come from low class backgrounds. Not the fact that kids at age 3 who eat fast food come from parents with low IQ. Not the fact that these kids get little to no early stimulation and are plunked in front of the TV all day watching the idiocy these morons spew out. NOOOOO. It is only because of the food.
TV is the junk food of intellectual stimulation. This is like the pot calling the kettle black. And then implying it is only the kettle who could be black.
Question: "Processed foods making your kids dumb?"
Answer: "No, your kids were already dumb to begin with."
Answer: "No, your kids were already dumb to begin with."
please post at regular intervals so we know you've not become obama's latest scandal.
that is the inconvenient truth
We don't actually know the genes responsible for IQ, but it's safe to assume there is a combination of genetic and environmental factors that determine one's IQ. Despite the wishful thinking by IQ denialists such as Gladwell, I would estimate the former plays a bigger role than the later. Evidence of this is that the macroscopic appearance of the brain of higher IQ individuals is actually different than that of average or dull people, which cannot be readily accounted for by nurture. Or that identical twins separated have similar IQs, despite different environments. The good news is IQ isn't completely hereditary, or we could theoretically have an idiocy type scenario.
Regardless of whether IQ is an indicator of all around intelligence, eating shitty processed food will affect your brain performance and make you slower. There's a lot of research linking what you eat with how your brain functions. Certain foods will inflame your brain and give you brain fog.
The Ultramind Solution is probably the best book you can read to get an introduction to the connection between food and your mind.
The Ultramind Solution is probably the best book you can read to get an introduction to the connection between food and your mind.
What about TV and Video Games.
I think the kids of today need to go on a mental diet: along with a food diet.
I think the kids of today need to go on a mental diet: along with a food diet.
Heritability of IQ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Various studies have found the heritability of IQ to be between 0.7 and 0.8 in adults and 0.45 in childhood in the United States."
What this means is that, as one gets older, one's genes play a larger and larger role in determining how smart one is. If you don't know, .7 and .8 means that genes account for anywhere between 70% and 80% of one's IQ.
Or, stated differently, If I know that a population of parents have an average IQ of 125, I know that 70% to 80% of their children's adult IQ will be 125 as well.
//stop blaming other people and other things for why you are dumb and start using whatever intelligence you have in the best way you can
You'd have to be pretty dumb to eat fastfood.
inb4 fastfood lovers: two keys to a healthy life -a lot of exercise and don't eat crap.
inb4 fastfood lovers: two keys to a healthy life -a lot of exercise and don't eat crap.
Most foods are low in vitamins and minerals. Especially the ones that help support healthy brain function.
The ones who eat fast food regularly aren't the ones ordering salads and the like, they're ordering whatever is cheap or looks good. If fast food places started fortifying the food with vitamins & minerals then it might change, but that's a bit scary too.
