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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42but sometimes i've found that feeling starved prevents me from focusing on anything else. I like best to have a light snack if I start feeling hungry in the middle of work, that gets my mind off the hunger and allows me to keep working.
- DollarSlave, on 01/20/2009, -1/+27This makes sense, I've certainly found that eating too much me sluggish and less apt to concentrating.
- spectrox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21so runway models are GENIUS! I always figured that coffee and cigarette diet was there for some reason other than for heroin chic looks! Next time you are in Milan talk with a supermodel about string theory and quarks. They are like hot and hungry Hawkings...
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Thus Jeopardy: Fat Girl Edition™ was born.
- Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Let's be honest- when it comes to being focused, who the hell cares if you're hungry or full as long as you've got a cup of hot, strong coffee?
- motivr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I can't focus and concentrate on anything when I am hungry cuz my stomach keeps making noises
- shertzerj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Being starved makes me look at the clock every 10 minutes while I'm at work until lunch time... but it only really bothers me if I'm not busy. When there's all sorts of ***** going on I find that I don't really mind either way.
- SundayTrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11It's true, On an empty stomach my mind can focus and concentrate...
on where I can get a chimichanga, two beef tacos and a beer. - atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13So fat people are stupid too?
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Hungry makes you smarter, yeah, quite possibly. Until your blood sugar runs low. After experiencing really low blood sugar at an exam, I made _very sure_ I always brought snacks with me to every exam after that.
Oh, and @Ascendant: damn straight! - bbschaefer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I think the point here is to not be hungry, and not be stuffed either. Hunger makes you think about nothing but food, and being full makes you think of nothing but being full.
Strike a balance. - NerdOfPrey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Personally, I can really feel my blood-sugar level dropping, and I start to get progressively more woozy until I have something to eat. One of my parents is diabetic, so I suppose I might be experiencing symptoms.
For the record I run for an hour a day, and eat a fairly low calorie diet these days. It was a different story until my late teens, when I was overweight but when on a self-imposed starvation diet and lost a /lot/ of weight very quickly. That had some peculiar side-effects... but I started rambling a paragraph ago, so I'll stop now. - jocnnor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8exsst,
All the comments above you talk about food....
Do you consider food your girlfriend?
Don't answer that... - StupidLiberal, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11No doubt. Everyone knows fat people are stupid.
- natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is because blood is forced to your stomach to help digest the food. Guess where it comes from?
This is the same reason regular aerobic exercise makes you smarter. - VeryAngryJim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was always told that humans think best and clearest when they are slightly cold and slightly hungry, some kind of instinctual defensive thing.
- gtlogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's it, I'm not eating anymore
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'll digg you up because I want that story to hit front page!
- donjaime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I call *****. I can't concentrate when im hungry. I spend the majority of my day doing some form of work, and I never manage to get anything done when im hungry. Right after I eat I get a little bit of the 'itis and feel sleepy. But half an hour later Im back to business.
- h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Inaccurate. You're supposed to eat a healthy breakfast in the morning so your brain has the energy it needs.
- cwalk, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12Well I guess that explains the Southern US.
- kayla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4College students living on ramen noodles, don't forget them.
- ogden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What genius figured this out?
Any diabetic could have told you this. High blood sugar has similar effects to being drunk. The effect is not limited to diabetics however -- the lower your blood sugar, the sharper you feel. Lower it too much and you feel out of energy, and eventually out of consciousness.
I am a diabetic and I am an expert at this. I work in a mentally taxing profession (software architecture) and I know anytime I feel sluggish it's the damn blood sugar. I eat a very strict diet and take lots of supplements (there are some things which are beneficial to diabetics in larger quantities than normal). I do not eat aspartame which is bad for everybody but *HORRIBLE* for diabetic, nor any other artificial sweetener.
This is something everyone experiences, diabetics just have to think about it *EVERY* waking minute of their lives whereas a normal person could probably go an entire lifetime and not think about it. That lethargic feeling after a good meal is a hint of what high blood sugar feels like. - xrisnothing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is bullcrap. I don't eat all day, and I start feeling hazy.
- enemyofstate430, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3***** yeah. coffee is better than food. i owe about a half a point of my GPA to coffee.
- chicbicyclist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Well duh, being hungry(but not starving) forces you to think clearly so you could aim and spear that rhinoceros rampaging towards you.
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Just doing my part. - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4OMG it's Christmas come early- it's a Glamour Shots! :)
http://bp1.blogger.com/_Qp-nJhlunUU/RYHIGk5gNFI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jL8NbrEAwJc/s1600-h/tawnie11062.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I do my best work when I eat light meals and don't gorge like others I have known..
- otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'm a Muslim, so I fast during Ramadan. This semester, I had many of my mid-term exams during the fast, so I was hungry during much my studying time.
I'd work best during the middle of the day (10-3) relative to when I had last eaten. After 3 or so, I'd simply get too hungry to focus, and after I'd break my fast, I'd be too full, and so time would pass much slower for some reason.
Works for me! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hard to believe the title is accurate.
smarter when "not hungry" than after eating? yes.
smarter when starving than normal? hm.. no.
besides, doctors say the brain needs glucose to function. - mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just the tip I needed before taking my Computer Science final today.
- lilx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think fat people feel more hungry than thin ones.
- NoTiG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i think the relation of your insulin levels are important. If you dont fast alot and dont go hungry much... if you suddenly do your body is not used to it. That could explain why it is hard to focus. Also... if you want the lowest baseline insulin levels possible (which are analogous to health benefits) , one interesting diet to try is the day on day off diet . (each twice as much on the second day(nothing the first day). I notice personally that I digest food the best when i havent eaten in a long time and am very hungry after more than a day of fasting.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3She looks incredibly dumb.
- NoTiG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here is a diet that sort of correlates. The warrior diet... intermittent fasting and over eating. He mentions that as an artist he is the most creative when he hasn't eaten.
http://www.warriordiet.com/publicity.html - Philonius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wait a minute.... what would happen if an entire nation of people - lets' say a nation that leads the world in production of almost everything, in school test scores, in medicine, science, etc. -- started (let's say, in the 1950s) to think of overeating PLUS TELEVISION as the ideal form of recreation.
Boy, if that happened, the entire nation could become stupid and elect lunatics and morons as leaders.
That would suck. - BearSuit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well what else is there in to live off of aside from coffee and ramen?
- pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No wonder I'm so smart =D I never eat!
- PayneX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wasn't wondering.
- knaps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just in case anybody's wondering -- Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative is:
"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature"
Good quote -- basically he's saying you shouldn't do anything unless you find it acceptable that everyone else does it. Act as if you're a role-model for the rest of the world. - nanito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Memorizing and using a quadratic equation doesn't necessarily make you intelligent, in fact i'm not intelligent at all and i'd still remember it, it goes, minus B plus (or) minus: square root of B cube minus four times A and C, everything (except the initial minus B) divided by two A, anyway the point is, I'm cooking a big ass beef right now so i gotta go! :)
- moonshn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint; early humans did not hunt using physical abilities, but rather by outsmarting prey. Thus this could be a survival mechanism from hundreds of thousands of years ago.
- moonshn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2go to hell
- alwaysmiling, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0As an Australian, I feel a bit left out. :( It is Australia that is the fattest country on the planet - not America. Do you yanks ever focus on anything but yourselves?
http://www.theage.com.au/national/nine-million-aus ... - attamars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No Thanks. I'm not going hungry. I'll just stay fat, dumb and happy.
- byogman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Makes perfect evolutionary sense the mice would do better... you want to really pay attention when the stakes are high (you need food). The problem with trying to apply this to other problems is that it's very hard to pay attention to anything but food in this state.
There was a maze that mice did better in... why? Probably not out of some abstract desire to solve the maze, probably out of desire to get the food based reward at the end. What were the other "intelligence tests", and how were the mice trained on the task? I'll wager they were trained with food based rewards.
For myself, I find I work best if I'm neither particular full, nor particularly hungry. I imagine its the same for almost anyone. - mock2zuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with you nanito, I suck at math and yet I can still remember the quadratic equation.
Now back to topic.
In my opinion, using the word, "smarter" is just too vague in this sense. I can see how if you were very hungry, you'd come up with creative and intelligent ways to acquire food, like learning how to fish or hunt. But being hungry and trying to perform better on an exam, kind of contradicts the whole survival notion. If anything, it would seem to me that you would rush-through the exam, as fast as you can, so that you can eat lunch sooner. Instinct.
As far as physical fitness is concerned, I have seen both obese and lean people who seem very intelligent. A fat person may argue that the human brain consists of mostly fat material and therefore fat is essential to sustaining a healthy mind. Conversely, a lean person may assert that having a lot of physical energy is essential to endure longer learning periods of brain activity.
Hmm, that was my first post on Digg. I really enjoyed reading everyone's comments. Thanks for the posts you all.
Mock - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is not that feeling hungry makes you smarter, it is that feeling full makes you dumber - different thing. Hungry is the unaffected base, full is the blood-sugar screwed brain.
Isn't the inability to feed oneself, i.e. being hungry, clearly a sign of lack of intelligence?
I've battled occasionally to open a packet of crisps, I admit, but I usually conquer it after an hour or two. - themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If I had a dime for each time on scientific result contradicted another....
- BullTaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why do Muslims always stay at Ramada Inn?
I usually stay at La Quinta.
They have free continental breakfast so I don't ever get too hungry. -
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