Your Bad Grades Will Make You Sick

“The people who do better in high school — they learn more, they’re more engaged, they’re active learners, and that probably plays out across people’s lives. They may have actually potentially learned how to learn more effectively, and that could affect things like how much you keep up with the latest innovations on how to improve your health, both medically and through your behavior.”
 — Dr. Pamela Herd theorizes about the results of her study showing that “students who finished in the top 25 percent of their high school class were healthier, decades later, than the ones who finished in the bottom quarter.” I guess I don’t have to be worried about my drinking and smoking any more; the damage was already done years ago.

Photo by renaissancechambara, from Flickr.