Hi IQ children more likely to become vegetarians

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>Brainy Kids May Become Vegetarians

>Study: 10-Year-Olds With Higher IQs Are More Likely to Be Vegetarians at 30

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>Dec. 14, 2006 -- Ten-year-olds with higher IQ scores may be more likely to be

> vegetarians at age 30.

>So say British researchers including Catharine Gale, PhD, a senior research

>fellow at England's University of Southampton.

>They studied 8,170 men and women who were born in the U.K. in 1970.

>Participants took an IQ test when they were 10 years old. Twenty years later,

> they were asked whether they were currently vegetarians.

>The vast majority said they weren't vegetarians, but 366 said they were.

>They included nine vegans (who eat no animal products, such as meat, dairy

>products, and eggs) and 123 people who called themselves vegetarians despite

>eating fish and chicken.

>Those with higher IQ scores at age 10 were more likely to be vegetarians at

>age 30. The difference in IQ points was about five points, the study shows.

>There was no difference in IQ score between strict vegetarians and the

>vegetarians who ate fish or chicken.

>The results held when Gale's team took participants' income, social class,

>and education into consideration.

>It's not clear how long participants had been vegetarians, or what (if any)

>relationship vegetarianism has to IQ scores.

>The study appears online in BMJ, formerly called the British Medical

>Journal.

>The journal notes that of the four researchers who worked on the study, two

>say they're " lapsed " vegetarians, one is a " committed " vegetarian, and one

>calls himself an " omnivore, " meaning he eats meat as well as plants.

>Three of the researchers say they've never taken an IQ test. The fourth (the

>omnivore) " opts not to disclose " his IQ, the journal states.