High IQ link to being vegetarian

dec 15th, 2006

a conscientious abstainer from meat -- who, born into an omnivorous family, decided at the age of 14 to become a vegetarian, and is now in her late 40s -- forwarded this to me.

there may be something to this. all those animal toxins do end up messing up your body. and animals themselves concentrate the toxins in whatever they ingest.

this raises the question though: is it that high IQ people become vegetarian for ethical and health reasons, or is it that vegetarians get to have high IQ? which way is the cause - effect relationship pointing?

anyway vegetarianism is a sensible thing all around. and if you have the likes of madras woodlands and saravana bhavan around to indulge your palate with genuine udipi cuisine, well, why not? just watch it with those laddus and jhangris and mysorepaks (or is it 'mysorepa'(TM)?).

i must say, though, that the best masala dosas are in chennai (and in singapore, and the silicon valley), not udipi -- has to do with the sambar, which in udipi itself is rather thin and a little sweet, almost rasam-like compared to the robustly thick tamil sambar. and i just went to udipi a few weeks ago and did a taste-test on the sambar, so there. bangalore masala dosas are good, but they put that chili paste in them, god knows why.

kerala sambar is also pretty wimpy, and kerala dosas are too thick. but the appams and vegetable stew -- yummy!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: amrita

** High IQ link to being vegetarian **
Intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life, a study says.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/health/6180753.stm >