Geez man, are you that stupid? They're taking pictures of you!
IQ leads to money-making potential which leads to wealth which leads to a better diet. DUR!
Did they control for SES or is this yet another “discovery” that eating habits and IQs both vary across population groups?
I won't even get into fast-food places like McDonald's. Too many parents are too lazy to see that their children are receiving proper nutrition.
They ought to check whether yellow teeth is linked to any particular IQ in Britain; it seems to be pervasive. Since the Brit gummint gives everything away for free, they ought to give away a bunch of toothbrushes and toothpaste!
wat??? I are smart i are smart
Like a 106 IQ at that age is anything to scoff at.
Now if they can figure out what is causing people to become braindead liberals we’ll have it made.
Geez man, are you that stupid? They're taking pictures of you!
The entire premise of the study is absurd. Junk food isn’t a causality of lower IQ scores, it is the home life that does it. Caring parents make far more difference than where you eat. Though the argument could be made that a high junk food diet can be a sign of a lack of strong parenting and familial ties in the home. After all, no one’s at home to cook dinners, what else aren’t they doing?
Perhaps not helping a child learn? Not providing good moral guidance? Perhaps even letting a television or video game be the parent?
It is not processed sugars or corn syrups, or some genetically modified potato starch that lowers IQ, it is the lack of homelife that lets a child turn off their mind, rather than stretching it to see the limitless horizons that are out there.
We are, to some point, at a collision between very real results of whole foods (whole fruits, grains, leafy vegetables and the like) which we all must admit are good and can be tasty,
versus
the Food Nazi regime that shelly fattest-ass-ever hypocrite wants to shove down the threat of everyone to show Her Power over Their Little Meaningful Lives.
As long as everyone else has a weight problem, she (shelley) doesn’t.
“Three dietary patterns emerged: one was high in processed fats and sugar; then there was a “traditional” diet high in meat and vegetables; and finally a “health-conscious” diet with lots of salad, fruit and vegetables, pasta and rice.”
Three different diets and they compare only two of them. The meat and vegy diet must not have fit their preferred outcome
I think this is a case of umbrellas in Hong Cong are causing rain in Spain.
Poor Albert Einstein, two of his favorite three foods were ice cream and meat & processed cheese sammiches. Just imagine, if he didn’t eat this junk food he could have been a smart man.
In a related study, frogs trained to leap into the air at the command of “JUMP!” were found to go deaf after having their legs amputated.
LOL
Don’t tell Woz or half the nerds here in the valley.
As a kid I lived on sugar, and barely recall eating that 'dinner' thing as I was always out playing. And my IQ was 110 (I peaked on the teacher's desk one day)(1) in Elementary School.
Then a decade ago or longer (time flies) I took another IQ test for snix - with a hangover from hell, so bad I didn't complete the last few questions - and scored a 127.
I then took my last IQ test a few years after that, while 100% SOBER, and I'll just say it is now a 'bit higher' than the 127 (it's in the top 2%).
And I'm not even sure we had junk food 'way back when', but if we did I lived on it. (would that be like Donuts, Coke, Hamburgers, Malts and Coffee?) (Yes I drank COFFEE as a kid)
(1) I could never figure why I was always getting a Red Check Mark on my report card as 'Under Achieving'. Now I know why, I was b-o-r-e-d and was daydreaming.
Hummmm....Yummmmmmy.
It has taken me 3 days to finish a big bag of popcorn. I have eaten nothing else, and it has been a delight.