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EDITORIALS: Marcus Richards Childhood intelligence and being a vegetarian BMJ 2007; 334: 216-217 [Full text]

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IQ has nothing to do with vegetarianism

Ramakant Sharma   (5 February 2007)

IQ has nothing to do with vegetarianism 5 February 2007
Ramakant Sharma, resident internal medicine Cleveland, USA Send response to journal: Re: IQ has nothing to do with vegetarianism	Dear Sir, This whole study is based on a wrong concept. Vegetarianism has nothing to do with IQ. I am a vegetarian since birth and so are 60% of my fellow countryman(India). Are we all more intelligent than the western counterparts or the indians who eat meat ? NO. Vegetarianism is a cultural phenomenon and it should be looked as that only. One more important fact is that inspite being vegetarians, Indians have 7 times higher incidence of CAD than there western counterparts. It proves that 'vegetarian food is healthy' is a misconception. Probably, food has nothing to do with disease except malnutrition and deficiencies. Competing interests: None declared