Study Says Smart Kids Pick Vegetarian Lifestyle

December 19, 2006

Study says smart kids pick vegetarian lifestyle

Bloomberg News

12/18/06

Children with a higher intelligence quotient at age 10 are more likely to

become vegetarians later in life, according to a study published online Friday

by the British Medical Journal.

People with an IQ of 110 were two-and-a-half times more likely to avoid eating

meat, the lead author of the study, Catherine Gale of the University of

Southampton, said in a telephone interview. Researchers studied more than 8,000

men and women, and found vegetarians were more likely to be women, belong to a

higher social class, and have higher educational degrees.

" If you are bright, you are more likely to understand health information and

more likely to act on it, " Gale, a senior research fellow, said. The results

backed up findings that intelligence is associated with lower rates of heart

disease.

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