On a long enough timeline, impairments caused by western-style diets could lead to the long-term decline of brain function in America’s future generations.
Source – zerohedge.com
– “…Norwegian researchers in 2018 analyzed the IQ scores of people from western countries between 1962 and 1991 and discovered scores increased by almost 3 percentage points each decade for those born between 1962 to 1975 – but then, in nearly the same year the term “junk food” was popularized in 1976, IQ scores started to plunge”
Idiocracy Explained – New Study Finds Western Diet Impairs Brain Function
The dumbing down of America was explained in the 2006 movie Idiocracy, where Private Joe Bauers (played by Luke Wilson), is the definition of an “average American,” takes part in a top-secret hibernation program via the Pentagon, wakes up five centuries later to only discovery just how dumb society has become.
Bauers wakes up in the year 2500, and he’s immediately declared the smartest person in the world. Here’s a snippet from the film:
How does America stumble down…
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Fast foods, soft drinks, mindless entertainment, sports… just add it up and count the calories. We may have to re-introduce the term “fat head” again.
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Funny, Sha’Tara, but also quite sad. It may be part of the explanation why trying to organize people to reform the system is so difficult.
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I figured it was bad but not this bad.
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My biggest problem, Lara, is that most doctors and public health officials are still telling people to follow a low fat, high carb diet, which is turning most of them into obese diabetics with heart disease and early Alzheimers.
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