Thinking can make you fat

[Dark Phoenix Rising]

Apparently it uses up too much glucose thus triggering a hunger response

[Elliot Kane]

Any form of muscular exercise makes you hungrier and the brain is a muscle. So I guess this makes sense.

[kitty]

Really? I'm surprised. Since most really clever people seem to me are NOT overweight.

Call me a horrible shallow person, but I often dared to connect obesity, especially when it runs in families, with a lower IQ. Simply out of experience...


EDIT: I just re-thought, this is just about thinking, not about IQ, not-as-clever people can still think much. Yeah *thinks loud atm*

[Elliot Kane]

Yeah. REALLY clever people tend to be so busy thinking they forget to eat (Which is maybe not so clever after all, but still ;D).

[kitty]

^ Well but I dare to say (oh I overuse the word dare) that people with a higher IQ often also tend to eat healthier due to actually using offered information about a proper diet that we all get daily.

Marilyn vos Savant, the (after the Guinness Book Of Records) person with the Highest IQ alive atm (IQ 220), invented her own diet for example. I know lots of people do that but I found it interesting what she writes about her reasons to eat or not to eat certain thing.

I learned that Einstein also had his very special diet, that didn't seem very healthy afterall but still, he thought about it.

Stephen Hawkings had a personalized dietprogram too.

But to come back to the topic, it was just estimated that thinking makes you fat and if I see how uselessly some people use their ability to think ("Zomgggg did you like, see what Kate Moss wore on that celeb thing? She was sooo skinny in it!"..."If I buy 5 chickenburgers for 1$, I'll get much more then when I take the meal 5 but if I take the special meal that they offer every 7th day of the week....") I'm no surprised at all ^^

[Elliot Kane]

Some do, some don't. The one thing that can definitely be said about very clever people is that they are very much individualists.

[kitty]

^ ... and not often fat.

There must be a reason for that. Maybe food just don't occupy such a big part of their lives what I often find is the case with less intelligent people. Higher IQ people doesn't seem to be bored as often.

Buuuut what do I know ^^

[Elliot Kane]

Or they find different things to do when bored. But yeah - there ARE people who are both fat and smart, but they are rarer than skinny and smart in my experience.

[kitty]

^ Yes, not saying there arn't any clever Rubens figures, I just wondered before WHY they are rarer. Of course, it is a risky theory to say "clever people are more likely to not be obese". But I do love risky... :bleep: ;D

[Elliot Kane]

Like all generalisations, it may not apply to any single individual, yes

[kitty]

"All generalisations are wrong"

[rhiian]

"69% of statistics are made up on the spot"
"is that true?"
"I dunno I made it up."
;D

going back to kitty's first idea
people with a low iq probably spend all their time thinking of food
so then they get hungry

[Dark Phoenix Rising]

How about the fact that people with a higher iq don't need to think as much as a person with a lower iq to solve the same problem?

[Elliot Kane]

Yeah, but they also see a lot more possible solutions, DPR, so unless the problem is a simple one that's not always so...

[cleglaw]

Beware of generalizing the results of any single study--especially if you haven't read the study and subjected it to critical analysis.

1. There were only 14 subjects--a pitifully small sample size.
2. Were the order of the 3 tasks randomized?
3. The conclusions can only be applied to the narrowly defined tasks performed.
4. Etc.

To read stuff like this and file it away in your brain as Truth does science a disservice.