If in your student days you get high marks as outstanding and remarkable, when you become an adult you will enjoy better health . This is what emerges from a study carried out recently by Pamela Herd, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. "What you do at school and in high school affects not only your future work and income, but also your health," Herd emphasizes.
In a survey of 10,000 graduates, scientists found that nearly 40 years after completing their studies, when they were about to retire, the health of the "nerds" in the class was much better than that of the rest of their peers . Although they admit that more data is still needed to conclude exactly what this effect is due to, the researchers are convinced that what we learn in school has an impact on the care we lavish on our body as we age.
