Have Vegetarian food & Become More Brainy

For centuries there have been serious debates over the implication and profitability of vegetarian and non-vegetarian nutritional regimes between the advocators and detractors of the respective diets. Perhaps it will not be futile to mention here that often the veggies have been denoted as cranks for their finicky eating habits. Much more for embarrassing the dinner hosts and guests rather than adhering to the same dishes daily! However though we know that all bygones are bygones and we should not have malice for others, this certainly seems to proclaim the ultimate victory of vegetarianism and also to topple down the vanity of the non-vegetarians. According to a coterie of internationally acclaimed researchers from the University of Southampton, it has been opined that persons clinging to vegetarian diet are found to have stronger IQs of around five points higher than the regular meat takers. However, the researchers have also not denied that till now it is not clear to them why veggies are brainier, though have admitted that the fruit and veg-rich vegetarian diet is enough to encourage the brain power.

The researchers, as has been reported, have been found tracking more than 8,000 volunteers for more than 20 years at a stretch. To them, both boys and girls at the age of ten had participated in a series of tests that were designed to examine the IQ. While they attained the age of 30, on being questioned whether they were vegetarian their answers compared to their childhood IQ score. Only a handful of the total gathering namely four and a half percent happened to be vegetarians, but a further analysis projected those who were brainiest as children were more likely to have become vegetarian as adults, provided they shunned both meat and fish. To the research, an adult vegetarian had childhood IQ of around 105, approximately five points higher than those who continued to eat meat as they grew up.

Speaking on this eminent researcher Dr Catharine Gale said, 'Although our results suggest that children who are more intelligent may be more likely to become vegetarian as adolescents or young adults, it does not rule out the possibility that such a diet might have some beneficial effect on subsequent cognitive performance. Might the nature of the vegetarians' diet have enhanced their apparently superior brainpower? Was this the mechanism that helped them achieve the disproportionate nature of degrees?' We should also take note that the illustrious dramatist George Bernard Shaw was one of the most brilliant exponents of vegetarian diets. To him, 'A mind of the caliber of mine cannot drive its nutriment from cows!'