What Role Does Our Intelligence Play in Our Health?
What
Role Does Our Intelligence Play in Our Health?
This is a double sided coin. Does health affect intelligence? Yes. Does intelligence affect health? Yes. This is one of those wonderful situations
where the cause and effect works both ways.
What happens in one area, will generally affect the other.
It is a known and proven fact, that
the eating and health habits we use as children, directly affects our level of
development. This includes the
brain. Protein, one of the most
important basic life building blocks, works directly in the brain’s
development. No protein, no proper
development.
Well, it doesn’t take very much
intuition here, to notice if the brain doesn’t develop to optimal operation
levels, you will not have a health conscious individual. Generally, you do not
have individuals develop to become productive, prosperous citizens, and
certainly not healthy, productive, prosperous citizens.
Past the
consideration of intelligence development, our level of education and
intelligence plays a tremendous role in our ability to educate ourselves about
the health options we should exercise.
With generations prior to the 20th century, physical energy
expenditures used up whatever nutritional resources you had provided
earlier. Physical work and a real lack
of nutritional supplements kept the body in constant need of nourishment. That is a time past. Today, with the advent of the computer,
physical activity is no longer a part of the work equation. We no longer lack for vitamins and minerals,
thanks to the boom in the vitamin market.
Today, we
must determine how much nourishment we need, how much physical exercise we
need, and how best to accomplish those ends.
Calorie needs, nutritional needs, physical needs, and education about
those needs now is information we should all understand, at least as it applies
to our individual self.
Our level
of income directly affects our health.
Did you know that? How much money
you make helps to determine how healthy you will be. Doesn’t really make sense, if you don’t’ look
at the broader picture. In the big
picture, however, here is the view: you are educated, have a degree, and are
exposed to tons of information during your college years. You are exposed to health classes, athletes,
and all sorts of professional people who already understand the importance of
health in your life.
You
graduate college, your income levels are quite nice, and you have the
opportunity to purchase magazines, health and fitness of course. Can you see how your education and intelligence
levels affect your health now? This is a
generalization that has proven itself time and again. All you have to do is observe your developed
countries versus the third world, underdeveloped countries. Standard of living and health are directly related.
If the evidence presented above is
not enough to satisfy your curiosity concerning the role intelligence plays in
our health, take the time to visit the US Census. This information is available through the
internet. There you will find all kinds of statistics, from income averages in
areas of the United States,
to education levels in those same places.
Also available is information related to the household. Check for yourself. You can see a direct relationship in many
areas of the country between income levels and health statistics for that
area.