Thursday, December 13, 2012

Are Young and Stupid People in Better Shape Because They Are Dumb and Inefficient?


The other day, I was at Starbucks I was talking to someone and we were observing a couple of folks who came into the store. One of them said that they forgot something, and they ran out the door, ran to their car, and then ran back, it appeared to have been there Starbucks card. The person I was talking to said; "how do people like that stay so thin?" It's not that my acquaintance was overweight, he just wasn't as wiry, forgetful, or skinny as the group which just came in.

In considering what just happened, I made a funny comment; "maybe because they are scatterbrained, they keep forgetting what they're doing, and it takes them multiple trips to get anything accomplished, so they are running around spinning their wheels all the time, and all that extra exercise is keeping their fat off." Of course, I was just joking, but then we got to thinking about it, maybe that did have something to do with it. Wouldn't that be funny? For instance, this new theory my goes something like this;

Smart people combine trips - Dumb people don't

Thus, spinning your wheels might have advantages in that case, namely they will never get diabetes, because they will be running around in circles trying to get anything done, and therefore stay in shape. I know that sounds hilarious, but there might actually be something to it? People that have to carry around extra weight would simply get too tired if they had to make multiple trips all the time, so therefore they work very hard to remember what they are doing, to combine trips.

Super Intelligent people probably don't have to make a lot of lists because they can easily remember what they are doing without bothering to write it down. Therefore they move around less, probably spend more energy running their brain than their mouths or feet in this case. It's an interesting study, however when I went on to Google scholar, I couldn't find any research on this topic. Nevertheless, it does make sense.

It would also coincide with youthful vigor and older wisdom - for instance, young offspring would need to be very fidgety, fast-moving, and skinny and somewhat athletic to make up for their mistakes, otherwise the saber tooth tiger would have eaten them, in which case their offspring would not have survived, because they wouldn't have never been born. Whereas, the ancient "older person" people in the group who may have moved slower, had to be more strategic, and pay more attention, because he or she knew they couldn't run faster than the saber toothed tiger, or faster than the younger generation, therefore being the slowest amongst their human group, and becoming lunch.

Thus, this reality could actually be explained through the evolutionary process and the sub theory of; "survival of the fittest," and, I will leave you with that thought. Please consider all this and think on it.




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