A new studyclaims that there is a link between diminished IQs and eating a junk food laden diet. According to the British study:
Toddlers who have a diet high in processed foods may have a slightly lower IQ in later life
Wow, who’d of thunk it! Have these folks never done the grade school experiment of nutrition using two rats? In case you haven’t seen it, you take two rats. You feed one a healthy, vegetables and water diet and the other, potato chips and Coke diet.
After about two weeks you will see that the rat that is eating healthy food is still healthy. You’ll also see that the rat who has been fed a poor diet is losing hair, has yellow eyes and other notable physical effects of the poor diet. Once placed backed on the good diet, the unhealthy rat returns to health within a couple of weeks.
The study claims that it went to great links to make sure that there were not other contributing factors that could explain the difference in IQ:
“We have controlled for maternal education, for maternal social class, age, whether they live in council housing, life events, anything going wrong, the home environment, with books and use of television and things like that.”
It sure looks like they covered everything, or maybe not:
While it is possible that diets impacted the children’s IQ I think I see one factor that the researchers missed. It doesn’t require Michelle Obama screaming at parents for them to know it isn’t good to feed their children a preponderance of junk food. I’m not so sure the children’s IQ is a result, it may well have been genetic!
