America is just dumb.

The world, especially Europe takes a strong stance, and it's been proven true time and time again that USA is the least healthy, and intelligent of the Industrialized nations.

Now what does health have to do with intelligence? A lot. Health is basically the state of our body, and most of us Drink Coffee, take Pharmaceuticals that clog our livers and slow our minds, eat Fast Food that has no nutrients, and eat even cheaper non-whole foods.

Eating a Doughnut w/ Coffee at breakfast will temporarily lower your health, and constant use will clog your arteries. The type of sugar popular in the US is High Fructose Corn syrup, which despite popular belief contains no corn, rather corn's high starches are converted and processed into a completely unnatural product that's shown in studies to be a carcinogen, and it's in almost anything.

High Fructose Corn Syrup doesn't break down like regular sugars, so even if there is no fat in your diet, you'll get fat drinking Coke all day. The complex structure of HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) means that your body won't break it down into energy. You're also probably not taking the nutrients and enzymes from whole foods that help break sugars and fat down into energy. So, we use the energy for just enough to get by the day. Then we come home and eat a pre-made Stouffers dinner. Which is also processed.

All this has to do with basic health. One thing is the lack of blood flow from low physical activity and eating artery clogging foods. So if you're blood flow is low the oxygen in your blood is lessened, which is crucial for good brain activity, on all levels. So as we get unhealthy our minds because dumber. Forget the Public School system, forget the false teaching, forget TV, food is the biggest culprit to American's bad health and low intelligence. Alcohol is also a big contributor. It's proven that even after 3-4 beers, a person's brain activity will not resume to "normal" for approx. 3-5 days after drinking. This is why frat dudes are so dumb. Besides, the fact that 80% of Americans drink on a weekly basis would fit perfectly into my idea that Americans aren't dumb by default, but the lifestyles we live. Stuffing poisons down our body day after day, takes it toll. On your body, and mind.

This is why we don't protest, we don't have the energy. In the 1960s people didn't know what Enriched food meant, (it means everything good like Vitamins, Nutrients are taken out and replaced with cheaper forms of nutrients if any at all) and they didn't get cancer like we do today...So they had more inquisitive brains, might have been more ignorant to today's standards, but on their standards, we are certainly much more ignorant today. Yet millions got up and protested Civil Rights and a useless War. In France, a place known for it's food, they do not eat processed foods, and they're one of the most rowdy and protesting nations in the world. They speak out against their government like it's just another Tuesday. And it works for them, they get 5 weeks paid vaca for ALL EMPLOYEES, it's a law. If you work 5 hours per week, you're entitled to almost full pay for 5 weeks of vacation. They also never work over 40 hours as they see that as bad and unhealthy for your mind, body, social life, and family. You might say, wow they must not get shit done, but in fact they have a higher rate of production than the US...hmm. No wonder our Government speaks so low of France, they don't want us to do what they do.

The only form on critical thinking in this country is tv, and movies. No one reads anymore, except text messages.

Almost everything we eat is a carcinogen, and low in REAL Vitamin D which is the anti-cancer vitamin. Even whole foods are packed with pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers. The chicken's used @ KFC are genetically modified to be large in size, and low in nutrients. As if the constant freezing, instant heating, and frying didn't kill off the remaining nutrients.

See the whole idea is a mind-body connection. Keep your mind healthy and you'll keep a healthy body by will, if you keep a healthy body you're helping blood flow and contributing to good health and brain activity. It's a 2-way street, and each affects the other. When we're sick it's likely from stress.

So when we watch TV shows that have no educational value whatsoever, look at ads until we are literally nauseous, and eat non-nutritional foods. It sucks. And we have little choice. Our supermarkets sell processed foods, whole foods are getting pricier.

Eat well, question everything, and don't eat fast food. It's addictive, and that's all there is to it. I used to eat it all the time, I found it difficult to stop, a mixture of addictive foods, and marketing, a deadly mix. I quickly gained almost 40 pounds in just 2 months working at a McDonalds as a 16 year old, and I have the metabolism of a 5 week old puppy...I was dumber, I made dumb decisions, I didn't eat other foods, and don't be fooled by getting Lettuce and Tomatoes, not only are they generally low in nutrients anyways, but the variety that Fast Food Comps use is genetically modified, which lessens the already low nutrients. Once I stopped eating any fast food, I not only didn't eat it but I didn't want it. I never want it, even when I'm stoned off my ass and that's all there is. Well maybe then, but still.