backassed bragging

[firecat]

I think I'm pretty smart. And I did well in school.

But if—as is reported in the latest junkfoodscience post—"Jocks tend to be better students than couch potatoes," I can only imagine how much smarter I would have been if I'd had more enforced physical activity as a schoolkid (in the name of preventing obesity of course). Not only would I have been skinny, but I would have been so smart that I probably would have invented some superweapon and the Earth would now be a ring of ashes orbiting Venus.

Especially check out the part of the article that discusses the "activity pyramid." It has "schoolwork, homework, reading, computer games, TV, videos, eating, resting, and sleeping" in a tiny triangle at the top, the same triangle that contains "fats" on the food pyramid.

Comments

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I wonder whose "anecdotal" evidence the study was inspired by. With the small exception of a group of kids I knew who played soccer, I'd say the majority of anecdotes are just the opposite - the really smart kids have to be FORCED to play outside.

What an odd study.