Vegetarianism linked to high IQs in kids

If you’ve got a smart kid on your hands he or she may end up being a vegetarian, a study by the British Medical Journal has found. Intelligent children are more likely to be vegetarians when they become adults, researchers say. Research has also found that vegetari­anism may be linked to lower cholesterol levels and reduced risk for obesity and heart disease later in life. The findings might help explain why children who score higher on IQ tests tend to have lower risk of heart disease later in life.

In the study, a higher IQ at the age of 10 was asso­ciated with an increased likelihood of becoming a vege­tarian by age 30. This relationship was found to be in part due to higher levels of education and occupational social class. But even after adjustments were made for these factors, the findings remained significant.

The study involved 8,179 men and women who were 30 years old and whose IQ was tested when they were 10.

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