Americans Getting Dumber – Average IQ Drops 14 Points (Video)
Americans Getting Dumber – Average IQ Drops 14 Points
Exposure to fluoride may lower children’s intelligence claims a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences According to Paul Connett, Ph.D., director of the Fluoride Action Network, “This is the 24th study that has found this association, but this study is stronger than the rest because the authors have controlled for key confounding variables and in addition to correlating lowered IQ with levels of fluoride in the water, the authors found a correlation between lowered IQ and fluoride levels in children’s blood.
This brings us closer to a cause and effect relationship between fluoride exposure and brain damage in children.” The average loss in IQ was reported as a standardized weighted mean difference of 0.45, which would be approximately equivalent to seven IQ points for commonly used IQ scores with a standard deviation of 15. Some studies suggested that even slightly increased fluoride exposure could be toxic to the brain.
Thus, children in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low-fluoride areas. The children studied were up to 14 years of age, but the investigators speculate that any toxic effect on brain development may have happened earlier, and that the brain may not be fully capable of compensating for the toxicity.“Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain,” Grandjean says. “The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.”
Processed foods are the staple of far too many diets, particularly in the United States where 105 million people have either diabetes or prediabetes. These processed foods are filled with white sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, aspartame, artificial food colorings, and a wide variety of other toxic substances. Interestingly enough, research shows that these are some of the worst IQ foods.
Given the makeup of processed foods, is it any wonder that children are suffering from IQ reduction upon introducing these foods into their diet? It would be a stretch to suggest that there is a vast conspiracy involving the editors of Top Gear Magazine to sell geoengineering as part of a New World Order by demanding their magazine be placed next to the New Scientist! However, this goes to show that these terms have become perniciously engrained in popular culture.
StartPage and Ixquick, two strongly privacy oriented search engines owned by the same company, announced recently that they surpassed three million daily searches for the first time. Have you ever seen the movie “Idiocracy”? It is a movie about an “average American” that wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that is surrounding him.
Unfortunately, that film is a very accurate metaphor for what has happened to American society today. We have become so “dumbed down” that we don’t even realize what has happened to us. But once in a while something comes along that reminds us of how far we have fallen.
In Kentucky, an eighth grade exam from 1912 was recently donated to the Bullitt County History Museum. When I read this exam over, I was shocked at how difficult it was. Could most eighth grade students pass such an exam today? Of course not. In fact, I don’t even think that I could pass it. Sadly, this is even more evidence of “the deliberate dumbing down of America” that former Department of Education official Charlotte Iserbyt is constantly warning us about. The American people are not nearly as mentally sharp as they once were, and with each passing generation it gets even worse.
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Hare Krishna!
Salutations to Tamhoji for compiling such a vast knowledge regarding Fluoride and Processed foods which is responsible for lower IQ among children.
The question is, do we really need fluoride and preservatives in our system?
It is said that while there is not material solution for material problems, there is a spiritual solution for every problem.
I believe that we are disregarding the injunctions in the scriptures which is causing disturbance of the body and mind, and suffering to our soul.
The Isopanishad states that one who pursues materialism alone goes into great darkness and one who pursues spiritual life alone goes into even greater darkness. But those who pursue materialism and spiritualism side by side like two wings of the bird, are happy in this world and the next.
I personally see that we are either going from one extreme or another. We don't have balance. We have lost our values because we lost touch with our ancient scriptures. We even discard our older generation, like our parents and grand-parents who have acquired wisdom through age and experience. We do not want to listen to them. So how do we expect the younger generation to imbibe the wisdom from our scriptures.
The most important message in all Scriptures is that we are all and connected by one invisible thread just like that invisible thread that connects the pearls in a necklace. We can see one another but cannot see the connection hence we want to fight to enjoy by controlling and possessing for our own vested interest. Hence we are becoming more and more selfish. We want to grab more and enjoy by hook or crook. We just want control and possess things, and we want to show we are better than others. Little do we realize that we have come empty handed and shall leave exactly the same way when our time comes.
We don't realize that what goes around comes around. If we share the resources with one another we are giving it to our own self because we are all spiritually one.
Even Christ said, "Do unto others what you would do unto your own self".
We are cutting and chopping thousand year old trees and our rain forests to make way for concrete jungles. We are converting natural (organic) food into unnatural (man-made, inorganic) and then blame one another or the government. We put preservatives in our food to give it longer shelf life instead of consuming natural organic food, because we want to hoard things for tomorrow. We don't have faith in the bounty of God who has enough for our needs. But He is helpless in front of our greed. We don't want to share God's bounty with one another, which He has endowed each country,state, city, town and village with something unique to share with all.
The condition we are in is because of the scarcity mentality which we have, instead of the abundance mentality which we should have. Because we don't have faith in God's abundance. He provides food for an ant as well as an elephant.
The situation we are in today is because of our mind. As is our mind, so is a our world (Yog Vasishtha)
I recently came across this story, which some of you may have read before, I would like to share here -
There once was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.
"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked.
"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."
He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves.
So it is with our lives. Those who choose to live in peace must help their neighbors to live in peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.
The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
It is possible to give away and become richer! It is also possible to hold on too tightly and lose everything. Yes, the spiritually centered person shall be rich! By watering others, he waters himself.
- From the Bible,
Proverbs 11:24-25
Hare Krishna!
Wonderful ! Thanks for this comment, it is the gist of knowledge.