This is interesting, I wonder if there's anything to it: International variation in IQ – the role of parasites (paper) by Christopher Hassall of U. Carleton.
It strikes me as the sort of thing that could be as big an issue as lead in the environment. Raise the sanity waterline: improve health!
Obesity is not a boon to IQ.
Yeah, I didn't mean "therefore we should make everyone morbidly obese to raise the general intelligence level", I mean that having obesity indicates you have enough food (since too much food hasn't really been that widespread a problem before this).
This is interesting, I wonder if there's anything to it: International variation in IQ – the role of parasites (paper) by Christopher Hassall of U. Carleton.
It strikes me as the sort of thing that could be as big an issue as lead in the environment. Raise the sanity waterline: improve health!