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Geneticist: Human Intelligence Declining...
by Mike Barrett
February 17th, 2013 | Updated 02/17/2013
{ There’s absolutely no surprise here! }
While this hypothesis does have some
merit: are genes really the primary reason for the overall cognitive decline of
the human race? If humans really are lacking in intelligence more than before,
it’s important to recognize other possible causes. Let’s take a look at how our
food system plays a role in all of this. It’s sad, but true; our food
system today is contributing to lower intelligence across the board. Researchers from Harvard have
found that a substance rampant in the nation’s water supply, fluoride,
is lowering IQ and dumbing down the population. The researchers, who had
their findings published in the prominent journal Environmental Health Perspectives, a federal
government medical journal stemming from the U.S National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences, concluded that ”our results support the
possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children’s
neurodevelopment”. “In
this study we found a significant dose-response relation between fluoride level
in serum and children’s IQ…This is the 24th study that has found this
association”. One attorney, Paul Beeber,
NYSCOF President, weighs in on the research by saying: “It’s
senseless to keep subjecting our children to this ongoing fluoridation
experiment to satisfy the political agenda of special-interest groups. Even if
fluoridation reduced cavities, is tooth health more important than brain
health? It’s time to put politics aside and stop artificial fluoridation
everywhere”. One study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences found that pesticides, which are rampant among the food supply,
are creating lasting changes in overall brain structure — changes that
have been linked to lower intelligence levels and decreased
cognitive function.
Specifically, the researchers found that a pesticide known as chlorpyrifos
(CPF) has been linked to ”significant abnormalities”. Further, the
negative impact was found to occur even at low levels of exposure. Lead researcher Virginia Rauh, a
professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, summarized the findings: “Toxic
exposure during this critical period can have far-reaching effects on brain
development and behavioral functioning.” Following 14,000 children,
British researchers uncovered the connection between processed
foods and reduced IQ. After recording the children’s’ diets and analyzing
questionnaires submitting by the parents, the researchers found that if children were consuming a
processed diet at age 3, IQ decline could begin over the next
five years. The
study found that by age 8, the children had suffered the IQ decline. On the
contrary, children who ate a nutrient-rich diet including fruit and
vegetables were found to increase their IQ over the 3 year period. The
foods considered nutrient-rich by the researchers were most likely conventional
fruits and vegetables. Interestingly, one particular
ingredient ubiquitous in processed foods and sugary beverages across the globe
-high fructose corn syrup – has been tied to reduced IQ. The UCLA researchers
coming to these findings found that HFCS may be damaging the brain
functions of consumers worldwide, sabotaging learning and memory. In fact, the official release goes as far to say
that high-fructose corn syrup can make you ‘stupid’. Gene mutations may have
something to do with our ongoing decline in intelligence, but let’s stop to
think for a moment what we’re doing to ourselves to make this decline even more
prominent.’
The Water Supply, Fluoride is
Lowering Your IQ
Pesticides are Diminishing
Intelligence
Processed Foods, High Fructose
Corn Syrup Making People ‘Stupid’