Sugar Makes You Dumb

[Shemaya]

Now it would seem to me that the ideal way to address this situation is to develop people, rather than to control and manipulate them. But how to do this when people, by and large, don't want to be developed? How can people be made to see that the ability to appreciate reason is a good thing, without resorting to the same manipulative tactics which are at the root of so many of the ills that are concerning to us?

Thoughts?

How about empowering people to develop themselves?

Rationality and reason are often used to twist the truth and give a notion of "authority". Logic can be used to reach erroneous conclusions. Some people don't always trust others logic and rational explanations because their gut and intuition is telling them that there is something not quite right, but they can't put their finger on it.

To others being intuitive may appear not smart, but actually it's just another process that instead of being linear, is more holistic, and therefore more encompassing of all possibilities.

I think we empower people by teaching them to trust their intuition and gut feelings. Those in "authority" ie, teachers, parents, doctors, can empower others by teaching them to be more intuitive, and use the rational, reasoning aspect of their mind to understand their intuition. Intuition often gives you instantly what takes a whole lot of explanation in rational terms.

If you rely more on reasoning and rational thinking it's really easy to ignore and have blindspots to inconsistent thought processes. However your intuition will tell you when something is inconsistent, or not quite right, or sounds good but missing a key variable that changes the whole picture.

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Quickly looking at the study...were they looking at fruit sugar? So basically the sugar that is in fruit, not refined cane sugar? Or is cane sugar fructose?