© Eric Vanden
In other words, they drink more, on average, but spread it out, and are unlikely to be alcoholics.
The results fit with the fact that highly intelligent people are also more likely to use drugs.
It could be because the intelligent tend to be easily bored.
The conclusions come from a large study of the links between IQ and health habits.
Higher IQs are generally linked to healthier habits.
People with higher IQs are likely to be fitter, as they do more exercise and strength training.
Higher intelligence was also linked to better oral hygiene, consuming fewer sugary drinks and reading the nutritional information on food labels.
The study included 5,347 American men and women.
They were first surveyed in their early 20s and followed up in middle-age.
The results provide an interesting picture of the way healthy and unhealthy habits are linked to intelligence.
The intelligent were found to be more likely to skip meals and snack in between.
Drinking and smoking both have an unusual relationship because both high intelligence and low intelligence is linked to drinking more and smoking fewer cigarettes.
People of average intelligence tend to drink less or possibly be teetotal - however, they are likely to smoke more cigarettes.
The study's authors conclude that they have...
"...found evidence of links between higher IQ and a number of more favourable health related habits (i.e. engaging in physical activity, nutritional literacy, and oral hygiene habits, as well as not smoking, binge dinking, or consuming sugary drinks),The study was published in the journal Intelligence (Wraw et al., 2018).
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These findings, support the notion that certain health behaviours may lie on a pathway that links intelligence in early life with various health outcomes in adulthood."
Reader Comments
That was so good!!
I dont drink, dont smoke, never tried drugs... well i dont even salt my sunnysideups.
But i love to cuss (and giggle)
....shit, messed that up
... i am .... when no bodies r around hehe
Glad i caught ya this morn GardenHands
My great grandfather was a US Marine in Europe in WWI. (Though that's about a generation out of whack, he married my grandmother when he was 33? and she was 16? South Carolina, doncha know.
And he could tell his crazy tales of smuggling during prohibition; why can't anyone now? Because government is watching, got bigger, and the whole, intended, 'chilling effect' has been in full operation since 9/11/2001.
I read somewhere that after 9/11/01, (maybe it was after B*sh*t I saying" You're with us or with the terrorists') that searches on Google of Al Kaka or Ozzy (Ain't) B'in Laidin (Years) both dropped through the floor. Not because people didn't want or even more than ever need that information, but that their behaviors showed that they were legitimately worried that the government would somehow get their hands on such searches.
And guess what? That gut instinct by folks was right, but to get someone to admit having their speech chilled is somewhat analogous to defending ANYONE accused of ANYTHING remotely related to ALLEGED child molestation. Everyone is against it; of course. No one will defend it.
But given the political and economic power that has been given to such 'claims', the wisest - at least those for whom STS is most important - don't talk about it at all. Ask them if they meant to ask a point about the bias of the accuser, (and where they had meant to ask something like that) they'll deny it. R.C.
Fn. 1: Folks:Realize that practically EVERYTHING published before 1936 is likely free online. Why that year? That was the year 'Steamboat Willie" and "Mickey Mouse' came out and so as to ensure that Disney/ABC is kept happy, he's still copyright protected, as our US congress has, since that year, renewed old copyright protections repeatedly so that the former standard term of protection has been repeatedly and unconstitutionally renewed and extended since then in the US. Fortunately, Australia did not follow suit until around the 1950s? and thus we can read for free books published there before their cutoff date, where they copied their feudal lord, the US.
Thus, Nineteen Eighty Four is free online, et al.
You can have them streamed, copied to audiobooks, etc. I particularly like this audio version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness: [Link]
RC