Genetic Fitness May Explain Why Intelligent People Are Often Healthier

Researchers with s**t for brains.

"UK and US researchers found that more intelligent people are often healthier, and suggest that this could be due to what they describe as a genetic "fitness factor" whereby both body fitness (health) and brain fitness (intelligence) are influenced by genetic differences among people.

The study was the work of scientists at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, the University of Delaware, in Newark, US, and University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, US. The paper is to be published in the journal Intelligence where an early corrected proof issue was put online on 28 April.

Other studies that have found intelligence and health often go together have suggested it could be due to several things, including childhood poverty, which harms both intelligence and health, and the fact that brighter people may find it easier to learn how to keep healthy by eating the right foods, not smoking and taking regular exercise.

But as lead and corresponding author Dr Rosalind Arden told the press:

'We had a different idea, that there may be an over-arching genetic 'fitness-factor' that influences both intelligence and health, regardless of childhood experiences or healthy lifestyles.'"

Which explains why so many pro athletes are Rhodes Scholars.

Shut up and put your "different ideas" back in your asses from whence they came.