Did you know that scientists, philosophers, and inventors such as Albert Einstein, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Confucius, Isaac Newton, and Thomas Edison were all vegetarians? This led the researchers tried to find an association between the propensity to consume non-meat foods and intelligence.

British Medical Journal published the results of such research, where researchers measured the IQ of a number of respondents at the age of 10 years and then follow their progress until the age of 30 years. Existing data indicate that those who become vegetarian when children have an IQ of about five points higher than the average adult who is not vegetarian.

They are vegetarians were also more likely to have jobs and a higher degree. This is due, according to the researchers, a diet rich in vegetables and fruits can improve the ability of the brain among other health benefits to improve intelligence.

“Studies have also shown that vegetarian kids grow taller and have higher IQ than his schoolmates. The risk for heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and other diseases also declined for the long term,” commented People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (MAP), an institution that campaigned for animal rights.

However, the results of this study still raises questions. Are smart kids who decided to become a vegetarian when I grew up, or did they become vegetarians in order to become more intelligent? Those with higher intelligence may be more to consider ethical issues, such as the welfare of animals, and also the health benefits of eating lots of vegetables.

Many people who eat everything but it is not all good food for our consumption often because it Get into a good food for our bodies that makes us free from modern diseases and healthier quality of life. A vegetarians eat only whole grains, nuts, vegetables and fruits.

For those of you who want to diet is better on a vegetarian diet is a diet that replaces all food to be restricted to healthy eating natural and vegetable. Nutrient intake of nutrients from natural food sources will make the body more healthy, prolong life, eliminating the disease, and various other benefits functions.

What are the good / benefits and advantages to become a vegetarian:

1. More efficient because the price of plant foods in general are usually more expensive than animal foods such as meat, snake meat, buffalo meat, and so forth. We’ll save a lot of spending money to eat.

2. Make us healthy physically and mentally as well as prolong our lives as animal foods such as meat generally can narrow blood vessels so that the nutrients and oxygen is uninterrupted which will consequently decrease our immune system.

3. Animal foods are generally still contain toxic chemicals such as pesticides, carcinogens, mercury, arsenic, etc., that can not be lost by cleaning with water and cooked.

4. Menopausal women who would not be tortured because soybean meal, apples, cherries, dates, olives, etc. are rich in natural phytoestrogens.

5. Calcium intake can get a cheaper vegetable by consuming soy milk, tofu,  dried beans, dark green vegetables, and so forth. No need to drink cow’s milk is more expensive just to get calcium.

6. Healthier because foods derived from plants are easily digested by our digestive system and does not result in a blockage in blood circulation. Foods high in animal protein cause various harmful diseases that can cause fatalities.

7. Plant foods helps the healing process of chronic and dangerous diseases like cancer and heart disease. In addition, we also will be spared from digestive ailments like constipation, hemorrhoids, colon cancer, and so forth.

8. Vegetarian diets are healthy and reasonable weight can reduce excess body weight without feeling hungry with the same caloric value with animal foods. When cooked and processed does not match our taste then we will eat vegetarian food to taste so it will not lead to obesity / overweight.